December 17, 2006 I considered myself from then a member of Overeaters Anonymous. On my way to church, having eaten breakfast, I stopped for a cappacino and sweet roll, got into the car, told God, “This is stupid.” If planned […]
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As You Love Yourself
What do you feel about you? contempt, disgust, abominate, down on, grossed out? Despise, detest, loathe, scorn, Hate? Does not that describe powerless over addiction, having unmanageable lives? Did any of us enter the rooms of recovery with a single […]
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Ten years ago I was a member, in a different town, another state. And I was a good member, came to meetings at least once a week, gave service, sponsored, released a hundred fifty pounds dropped from a 5X to […]
Continue reading »Restore Us To Sanity
We admit we’re powerless over addiction, have unmanageable lives, then, Step Two talk of a need to be restored to sanity. But were we really insane? So, what is sane? Not having a substance or habitual action that you can’t […]
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Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? ~ Galatians 3:4 (NASB) We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even […]
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