My desperate need freed me to discover the energy source I now call God: the ultimate source of comfort, acceptance, love, and peace. God is the source of my abstinence and the source of my repose from the trials and […]
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From My Prison
It is a prison: a body miserable in excess, unable to cross legs, to sit on the floor… then stand without mimicking a camel rolling to his feet. It is a prison: terminal ugliness, gross, grotesque, too lazy/tired/depressed for cleanliness, […]
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At the bitter end, food is the companion, the obsession, the all in all. Don’t look at me! Don’t see the fat, the pimples, the disarray, the too-small clothes. Just leave me alone with my binge. Wait! It may […]
Continue reading »Second Life
You have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one. ~ Confucius It surely feels as though when you reach the rooms of Recovery as though you’ve failed miserably, can’t even do what everybody can…just […]
Continue reading »We Can’t Quit
Like compulsive overeaters, normal eaters will sometimes find pleasure and escape from life’s problems in excess food. Compulsive overeaters, however, often have an abnormal reaction when we overindulge. We can’t quit. A normal eater gets full and loses interest in food. […]
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