If you could see me, you’d run, screaming, alarmed, terrfied. Surely you’d cross yourself, toss salt over your shoulder, do anything to avoid the curse, to distance yourself from me. So I hide. I hide in food like a child, […]
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What Matters
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. ~ Bernard M. Baruch Honesty. I once believed I understood just what honesty was…not to lie. That of course, […]
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TOOLS: “The OA tools of recovery help us work the Steps and refrain from compulsive overeating. The nine tools are: a plan of eating, sponsorship, meetings, telephone, writing, literature, action plan, anonymity and service. For more information, read The Tools […]
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My mess is my message. Your mess is your message. ~ Stan Standridge We come with unmanageable lives, wrecked, wretched. We come with nothing — or not much more than nothing — but our mess. But that raw material, that garbage heap, that […]
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It’s on the books. The meeting Wednesday noon, another Tuesday evening, then early early Wednesday. No wonder he calls it my cult. How silly it seems, the same thing over and over, not just once weekly but again and again… […]
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