The setbacks always teach me something.” ~ Julie Trudeau I could lambast myself for slips, bewail my frailty, my transgressions. And there’s value in seeing them, naming them, examining the circumstances, what I’d been doing, saying, hearing, feeling… not doing. […]
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Small-Minded Rules
Pope Francis said the Catholic Church had become obsessed by “small-minded rules” about how to be faithful and that pastors should instead emphasize compassion over condemnation…” Reporter News Rules are important. We know that when we get here, having been obsessed […]
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For all of us, however, the days of controlled eating grew fewer and farther apart, until at last we came to OA, looking for a new solution. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Locations 68-69) Sure […]
Continue reading »Wishes, Dreams and Schemes
Dreams of super-powers, of Peter Pan flight, yield to visions of fairy godmothers to jerk us away, to match us with charming princes. Decades later the fountain of youth entices, rekindles what-if dreams. For a fortunate few, somewhere along that […]
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As a result of practicing the Steps, the symptom of compulsive overeating is removed on a daily basis, achieved through the process of surrendering to something greater than ourselves; the more total our surrender, the more fully realized our freedom […]
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