“Getting out of my own way gives me the freedom to rise to the highest level of which I am capable.” — For Today, p. 280 “I can do this by myself!” One of our oldest and most durable illusions. […]
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And We Ate
Our lives became unmanageable when the car wouldn’t start, the computer broke down, or our checking account wouldn’t balance. We suffered from other people’s unmanaged lives or from bad luck. What alternative did we have? We ate to sate the […]
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Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. […]
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Once we have become teachable, we can give up old thought and behavior patterns which have failed us in the past, beginning with our attempts to control our eating and our weight. ~The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters […]
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What was the big deal, going to a meeting? She knew what they did there though not from having tried it. Heck, she’d even read the “Standard Meeting Format” and knew how robotic, how rote memory, how repetitious it was. […]
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