I just watched her life. ~ Joan B. Stalking is such an ugly word, an unwelcome attention. People watching, however, can be the sincerest complement. We begin it early, watching parents and siblings, copying them. We use teachers as examples […]
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Sharing the Mess
When people share the mess instead of the message, at meetings or elsewhere, I realize that I am not alone in getting things backward. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 3353-3363). Sharing the mess, talking about what’s wrong, not in the […]
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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” ~ Jane Howard We are social animals. Take it from a loner, a person […]
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Today I know that no one is without hope. Indeed, the best hope is in the very admission of hopelessness. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 1056-1057). We come to recovery admitting we’re powerless over addiction and that our lives have become […]
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The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively. -Tradition Three We welcome newcomers well, understand where they come from, remember the desperation we felt when we got here. Usually we treat those returning from relapse kindly […]
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