We admit we’re powerless over addiction, have unmanageable lives, then, Step Two talk of a need to be restored to sanity. But were we really insane? So, what is sane? Not having a substance or habitual action that you can’t […]
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When We Have Truly Taken Step Three
Once we compulsive overeaters truly take the third step, we cannot fail to recover.- OA 12 and 12 What does it mean yup truly take a step? to truly take THIS Step? “Came too believe a power greater than ourselves […]
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Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale It’s not habits we must change. It’s not luck, good or bad, causing pain. Diets, exercise, the weight we crave does not bring happiness. Look at things through […]
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When people share the mess instead of the message, at meetings or elsewhere, I realize that I am not alone in getting things backward. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 3353-3363). Sharing the mess, talking about what’s wrong, not in the […]
Continue reading »On the Pentacle of Life
I descended into a horrific food rock bottom, which finally convinced me that compulsive overeating is a progressive, dangerous, and slow-killing disease of mind, body, and spirit. My slide was halted only by seeking help from fellow OA members and […]
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