Home is her sanctum, a private retreat nobody enters, only she ever steps through the door. If someone appeared seeking admittance, she would be mortified if they saw the detritus of sugar binges, of chips, of wrappers of all types. […]
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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, […]
Continue reading »Complicated People
It’s a simple program for complicated people. ~ Program slogan Am unmanageable life is not the norm… except in the rooms of recovery. How many “Normies” do you know who would tell you they have no friends, that they’ve wished […]
Continue reading »A Team Player
I also learned in program that I am enough. When a sports team manager assembles a team, he or she looks to combine a number of players into a single unit. The manager does not expect a group of perfect […]
Continue reading »How to Change a Relationship
All my relationships changed the day I started accepting people exactly as they are. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 1126). It was my job to change you and I’d do it any way I could. Passively aggressive, my favorite, though […]
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