After twenty-four years in the program, I began to see that self-hatred was my first addiction. ~ Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition (Kindle Locations 869-870). Some of us were chubby toddlers, never healthy body weights, some ideal weight into our twenties then […]
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Change of Residence
Today I live in the answer—the Steps and the tools. I changed residence, and the problem went away. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 314-315). We talk in Recovery of a geographic, of an attempt to manage an unmanageable life by […]
Continue reading »A Brick Wall
I know I cannot walk through a brick wall, and I’ve totally accepted this fact, so I don’t try. I don’t even resent the fact that I can’t do it. When I accept Step One as completely as this, I […]
Continue reading »Last House on the Block
Many OA members describe OA as the last house on the block. I do not know if that is true since I do not know where the block begins or ends. I do know that what I found in OA […]
Continue reading »Freedom
…a newfound freedom, the freedom that comes as a result of practicing unconditional love and acceptance of the person I am today. ~Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 200-201). It didn’t feel like bondage, more like freedom. At least at first. […]
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