We are not in charge of others! Not their behavior, their thoughts, their dreams, their problems, their successes, or their failures. ~ Casey, Karen. Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow. Red Wheel Weiser. Kindle Edition. Ten of us on […]
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A Problem Made Manageable
Just as gravity keeps us grounded and connected to the earth, our fellowship keeps us bound to sobriety. The fellowship available to us in our Twelve Step program keeps us in reality. A problem pondered in isolation seems immense; the […]
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Fear of people is usually a fear of rejection or disapproval, often brought about by our own sense of unworthiness. Feeling we are without value, we may settle for less than we are entitled to or less than we could […]
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True friendship can occur only among equals. ~ Plato One amazing fact about most, if not all, people who come to Overeaters Anonymous have, as long as they can remember perceived the universe as consisting of perhaps some on a […]
Continue reading »These Rooms of Recovery
We came to these rooms in a spirit of desperation utterly defeated by food, ashamed of insane eating. We stay in these rooms in amazement, grateful to have found folks of our ilk. We urge you to join us in […]
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