I know I cannot walk through a brick wall, and I’ve totally accepted this fact, so I don’t try. I don’t even resent the fact that I can’t do it. When I accept Step One as completely as this, I […]
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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 »Freedom
…a newfound freedom, the freedom that comes as a result of practicing unconditional love and acceptance of the person I am today. ~Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 200-201). It didn’t feel like bondage, more like freedom. At least at first. […]
Continue reading »I Promise
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. ~ Mark Twain Resolution: a firm decision to do or not to do something. […]
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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