Many subtle attitudes and past conditioning can affect our sense of ownership of our lives and of the world we live in—guilt, a haunting sense of victimization, laziness, living with repressive, angry, or abusive people may have tamed our sense […]
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Hooray for Abstinence!
Years and years of eating for comfort, in rebellion, as a reward, for no reason other than the trigger tripped so eating goes on, inertia-driven. Then a simple plan, people who know you on first introduction, your doppelgängers. Eating gains sanity, […]
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If you can tell me your sponsor’s name but not the last time you telephoned, texted, emailed, met to talk, communicated…you don’t really have a sponsor. You have a phone number! If you agreed to sponsor and set no expectations, […]
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There is one fear that I hope my Higher Power never relieves me of: the fear of complacency. ~ Voices of Recovery, page 347 The Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous tells us “What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on […]
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