Halloween candy, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year… small wonder when it finally comes most resolutions begin with diets, weight loss, exercise, living better. But we have the marvelous opportunity to start now, to eat sanely, intelligently, with a nine week head start […]
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No Right Way
I have learned there is no right way to do the wrong thing. ~ Overeaters Overeaters, Third Edition (Kindle Locations 781-782). The best-laid plan, our most excellent thinking, will inevitably go wrong for us, for addicts, if we’re directing the play, […]
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Our lives became unmanageable when the car wouldn’t start, the computer broke down, or our checking account wouldn’t balance. We suffered from other people’s unmanaged lives or from bad luck. What alternative did we have? We ate to sate the […]
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If you … find yourself going out of control with a substance or behavior, I want you to consider that compulsive behaviors are a sign of a life out of balance. Instead of going into denial or trying to avoid […]
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Without a healthy inner life, one is exiled to trying to find fulfillment on the outside. This is co-dependence, and it is a symptom of a wounded inner child. ~ John Bradshaw. Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child What should […]
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