Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale It’s not habits we must change. It’s not luck, good or bad, causing pain. Diets, exercise, the weight we crave does not bring happiness. Look at things through […]
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I Can’t. God Can.
I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? (Galatians 3:3 NIV) We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, […]
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I descended into a horrific food rock bottom, which finally convinced me that compulsive overeating is a progressive, dangerous, and slow-killing disease of mind, body, and spirit. My slide was halted only by seeking help from fellow OA members and […]
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Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. ~Hebrews 2:11 (NIV) We are like the passengers of a great […]
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Today I know that no one is without hope. Indeed, the best hope is in the very admission of hopelessness. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 1056-1057). We come to recovery admitting we’re powerless over addiction and that our lives have become […]
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