What is a lifeboat? A ship’s boat, designed to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel. For a compulsive overeater, what is the equivalent? What is necessary to stay afloat on rough seas of Recovery? The nine tools are a Plan of Eating, Sponsorship, Meetings, Telephone, Writing, Literature, an […]
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I Put My Hand in Yours
A flyer had been published by Overeaters Anonymous, To Anyone Starting an Overeaters Anonymous Group and a nacent Lifeline Magazine had begun, but otherwise Alcoholics Anonymous literature was used…until fifty years ago when, as our founder wrote, “I envisioned myself and […]
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Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. ~ Galatians 3:7 NIV Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection. Show him […]
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As I take the Twelve Steps a group of sober drunks came up with eight decades ago, simple steps, easy to remember but far from easy to live… As I take the Twelve Steps again and again, coming nearer, and […]
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In the 1930’s the universe tilted though only slightly at the time. A drunk named Bill sobered up with the help of a surprisingly sober friend and a doctor long-familiar with Bill. He happened to travel from New York City […]
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