My coworker didn’t talk to me about OA. I just watched her life ~ Joan B Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening a s the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to […]
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Prisoner in the Sheets
The waiting comes hardest in single-digit night hours, as absurd thoughts nag and grandiose plans leapfrog logic. When the offering of your presence, as anchor in islands of consciousness tie you there rather than giving up and starting tomorrow too […]
Continue reading »The Old Days
Sometimes the “good” worms into my thoughts – no, not thoughts. My gut, my archival memories, the illusive patterns perhaps once a source of pleasure, later compulsion, habit, obsession – bestowing pain as a mean surrogate for comfort. The […]
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A year’s calendar isn’t long enough, so they make them for eighteen months. Experts expect a five-year plan, short term, but a twenty-year outlook for the vista. I’ll buy their calendars, list goals far-fetched, but the only way to get […]
Continue reading »Your Mission Should You Choose to Accept It
You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. […]
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