A person can never be too overweight, too underweight, or too normal in weight to be an OA member. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Location 1404). Welcome to Overeaters Anonymous. Welcome home! Yes, home. Come […]
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Surrender
Years piled on years, tears after tears, self-help, self-loathing, short-lived success brings marathon failure trial and error and error and error and error and hopelessness, helplessness, despair to the pit, the bottomless abyss… the criteria met for surrender… and recovery.
Continue reading »Noticing Chains
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. ~ Rosa Luxemburg [Is a quotation less a poetry prompt when you Google her and disagree on every aspect of life? Is truth truth or is it limited to the truth meant when […]
Continue reading »Jealous of Destitutes
The ability to maintain abstinence through the struggle of homelessness, the pain of emotional relapse, and the fear of financial insecurity are evidence to me of a power greater than myself.~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2822-2823). What a powerful testament! […]
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I admitted I was powerless over food, that my life had become uninhabitable. Sure, there are folks who speak of lives unmanageable, but my life was always that! It took more to push me to the admission. I had a […]
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