She came in a few minutes after the meeting started. Ginger was leader for the day and and answered her “Is this where you talk about losing weight?” with a “Yes, and other things. We’re all people who have compulsive […]
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If Only I Hadn’t Acted like Myself
The habits are congealed, rock solid. I’m a private person, a cosmopolitan hermit. Small talk is water torture, chitchat anathema, meeting people the bane of my existence. I arrive on time, to the minute, leaving no time, no interstices for […]
Continue reading »A Hibernating Pregnant Bear
Food, give me food! I’ve eaten the berries, the leaves, the twigs, nowI’m gnawing the trunk. Honey! Give honey me! I need sweet!! I found a hive, ate the honey, the honeycomb, the bees, the hive! More honey, Give me […]
Continue reading »That’s Sanity
I feel a calmness and a confidence that produce realistic expectations under adversity. Now that’s sanity. ~Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 455-456). The program talks of coming to believe a Power greater than I could restore me to sanity? What?? […]
Continue reading »On the Brink
I am as close to taking that first compulsive bite today as I was on the day I came into program if I am not living in the present and aware that I am a compulsive overeater. – Voices of […]
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