I choose to be happy—and I allow myself happiness. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 333-334). Nothing anyone says to me, about me, nothing anyone does for me, thinking detrimental thoughts of me, in a way that feels to me as […]
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The First Addiction
After twenty-four years in the program, I began to see that self-hatred was my first addiction. ~ Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition (Kindle Locations 869-870). Some of us were chubby toddlers, never healthy body weights, some ideal weight into our twenties then […]
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Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. ~ Ecclesiastes 7.7 KJV Mad as Hell. Not going to take it any more. Cruel, unjust treatment, oppression. You don’t have to treat me like this, God! […]
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If steppers were capable of reasoning, there wouldn’t be any steppers. “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”–Voltaire ~ Reverend B What chains do we revere? This is like the question raised in the Big Book, […]
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Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? ~ Galatians 3:4 (NASB) We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even […]
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