And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.’ ” ~ New American Standard Bible – NASB 1995 (Kindle Locations 44740-44742). How often do we try to manipulate […]
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Last House on the Block
Many OA members describe OA as the last house on the block. I do not know if that is true since I do not know where the block begins or ends. I do know that what I found in OA […]
Continue reading »The Proper Credentials
We don’t need certification, education, or credentials to share our program with fellow compulsive overeaters or to take service positions at our home meetings. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OvereatersAnonymous (Kindle Locations 1831-1832). We girls were told growing […]
Continue reading »True Comfort
Now true comfort for me is waking up with that clean, happy feeling, knowing I was abstinent the day before. True comfort is: Hearing the birds sing Breathing the sweet breath of life Thrilling to the beauty of nature Loving […]
Continue reading »Thank You for Believing in Me.
Thank you for not judging g promise in me, for not taking your cues from me, seeing the miserable, lonely wretch I knew. Thank you for seeing me in terms of weight, dress size, for the dangling flap below my […]
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