How could I love my body? How could I have accepted an addiction to sugar, a compulsion to overeat, a disease that could have, would have killed me? I can do all this because without meeting the criteria, without the […]
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The Winter of My Discontent
Only when I surrender, after desperation encompasses and devastates, destroying hope can I find the courage to step out, to try what seems madness, to accept that I can, someone else may know even if they are normal…not even normal […]
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At the first meeting you told me, “Welcome home!” You didn’t ask what I weighed must less lead me to scales. You asked if I was a hugger then you did, hugged me even though I stank and you couldn’t […]
Continue reading »Looking for Life
Seeking, searching, uncovering, exploring, dissatisfied still. Yearning, restless, craving, needing, wanting still. Discontent, heart ache, rootless, thwarted, humiliated. Humble, sought for, found, completed, standing in illumination.
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A stranger, I walked into the rooms, scared, hurting, terrified to come, expecting failure in due course, like immediately. It felt different, though, warmer, like hope lurked, flirting around my chair. Like love — and I grew to believe you […]
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