Monday, Monday So good for me, a week begun grounded in Recovery. After breakfast I call my sponsor, soak up wisdom, her words, her guidance. Then shortly after five of us gather in three countries, two states, three time zones. […]
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Pay Attention to My Obvious Misery
It is likely someone will pay attention if I wear misery like a badge, if I wallow in it and wail of it, spreading the misery. I know I do when someone’s obvious misery be-smudges my world. We don’t have […]
Continue reading »Hooray for Abstinence!
Years and years of eating for comfort, in rebellion, as a reward, for no reason other than the trigger tripped so eating goes on, inertia-driven. Then a simple plan, people who know you on first introduction, your doppelgängers. Eating gains sanity, […]
Continue reading »A New Way in the Wilderness
This is what the Lord says — he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; […]
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. ~ Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices. Hating yourself is not being at war with your vices; […]
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