We ate to sate the fears, the anxieties, the angers, the disappointments. We ate to escape the pressures of our problems or the boredom of everyday life. We procrastinated, we hid, and we ate. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions […]
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The Whole Truth
Step Three is about commitment. Most compulsive overeaters find it difficult to keep their word. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 1396). I spoke with my sponsor Monday, told her of a person talking to me about lies, about deceit, about […]
Continue reading »In Wellness Here (III of III)
Come on in, we’re all in wellness here. I can accept or decline. I could. If I were willing. God, make me willing…or at least willing to be willing… It’s childish to remain in rebellion, to decline what I heartily […]
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None of the diets gave hope for a lifetime, just hope for the moment. ~ Joan B How can we be without hope when we prove over and over again that every diet works, some more than others, but that […]
Continue reading »Absolutely Not!
You shouldn’t consider asking me to accept a service position I can’t do. Look how many are better able. I can’t. I’m not qualified, would fall on my face, get us into such a state we’d be sued and bankrupt, […]
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