If we are surprised, shocked, deflated, or discouraged when a defect returns, we lack humility. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Location 740) Perfection wasn’t mine, isn’t now. Pride says when I surrender a trait […]
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Excuses
I didn’t sleep well, have yawned all day. I got organized, made a list, ready to move through it. In the process haven’t emailed Sponsor, skipped readings, sloughed off. But hey, I made a meeting, yawned through it. Surely Sponsor […]
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Later, he requested the privilege of being allowed to tell his story to other patients here and with some misgiving, we consented. ~ Dr. William D. Silkwood We consented. Bottom line. Sometimes decisions come with misgivings, with doubt and fear […]
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By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong. ~ Song lyric, Joni Mitchell Improbably results from a shared dream, whether a crowd of people on six hundred acres in the Catskills or a hundred sober […]
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In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless. ~ William D. Silkworth When an individual has […]
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