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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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 […]
Continue reading »As You Love Yourself
What do you feel about you? contempt, disgust, abominate, down on, grossed out? Despise, detest, loathe, scorn, Hate? Does not that describe powerless over addiction, having unmanageable lives? Did any of us enter the rooms of recovery with a single […]
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When a person with substance abuse enters treatment and begins to live a life of sobriety, losing your routine and attempting to face reality can be a serious source of anxiety – even driving you into depression. ~ Shanthi Mogali, […]
Continue reading »Five Stages of Grief
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and finally, thankfully, Acceptance. I didn’t get sober because I reached Acceptance, I got sober because I knew if I didn’t stop drinking, I would die. And, there was a part of me that was stubborn […]
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