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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Shaming Myself
Shaming myself for falling back into old behaviors is an old behavior in itself, and it helps keep me in all my character defects longer. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2101-2102). Old habits die hard. And the mental habits […]
Continue reading »Futility and Fatality
We have listed and analyzed our resentments. We have begun to comprehend their futility and their fatality. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Location 1014). Who can rant and rave about wrongs perceived and entertain a wisp of a thought these resentments might be […]
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The false self is like any other living thing, it does’t want to die. ~ Miranda All life hangs in there. The mosquito cannot know you’re trying to squish her but dips and dives and avoids most swishes. The animals […]
Continue reading »More Better
There’s always more better. ~ Vonage ad Good enough is not good enough. Better can be more better. We walk into the rooms of recovery helpless, hopeless, beaten and downtrodden. Expecting a diet or a drying out or a way to […]
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