Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Rumi I’m lovable…or so I’ve been told. I’m respected, so I’m respectable. Why is […]
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Fear of Fear
Fear can become a power greater than myself. I may not be able to fix it or make it go away. ~ Al-Anon Family Groups. Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II (Kindle Locations 3916-3917). Step Three […]
Continue reading »Real Power
Eventually, we learn the lesson that real power comes from allowing ourselves to be vulnerable enough to feel hurt. Real power comes from knowing we can take care of ourselves, even when we feel emotional pain. Real power comes when […]
Continue reading »A Better Person
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. ~ Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices. Hating yourself is not being at war with your vices; […]
Continue reading »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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