Taking care of myself means I’ve made a decision that it’s okay to feel. ~ Melody Beattie. The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series (p. 362). It’s okay…even desirable to feel the feelings that in my mind for half-a-dozen […]
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Emotionally Sober
I went to an open AA/al anon/family meeting tonight with my husband (he had asked a couple weeks ago and it’s the first Friday I could go). It was really good and I’m very glad I went. I’m pretty emotionally […]
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I inhabit your thoughts, denying you pleasure in other people, for if they have anything interesting to say, I make their company uncomfortable. Even if you would not want the experience they describe I make you wish you had the story to tell. I record in […]
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I choose to be happy—and I allow myself happiness. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 333-334). Nothing anyone says to me, about me, nothing anyone does for me, thinking detrimental thoughts of me, in a way that feels to me as […]
Continue reading »The First Addiction
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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