Our past is neither an accident nor a mistake. We have been where we needed to be, with the necessary people. We can embrace our history, with its pain, its imperfections, its mistakes, even its tragedies. It is uniquely ours; […]
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A Disease of the Body
Psychologically, the obese individual is helped to attain a sense of the reality and nearness of a greater power, which replaces one’s egocentric nature. Then the person’s point of view and outlook will take on a spiritual coloring. ~ Dr. Peter […]
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One day I walked into a cafe to telephone. In no time I was beating on the bar asking myself how it happened. As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but […]
Continue reading »We Are Not a Glum Lot
The diet mentality made us all glum, defensive, angry. That’s what many of us expected here in the rooms of recovery. Imagine someone…a lot of someones learning what you did to hide your eating, to keep people from knowing you […]
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