Shaming myself for falling back into old behaviors is an old behavior in itself, and it helps keep me in all my character defects longer. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2101-2102). Old habits die hard. And the mental habits […]
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What I Am
I am a sugar addict and compulsive overeater, recovering. I say “recovering” with compulsive overeater but not with sugar addict. Why? Because like an alcoholic who takes that first drink I fall back into the pit with a dab of […]
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A hundred years of nights and days since Robert Frost surveyed two paths, while time caromed through history’s maze and culture burst with heat that crazed the china mores of the past. A simple time, a wooded place, within, without, […]
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I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. And […]
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I prayed for God to keep me from eating my binge foods. I ate food that had fallen into the trash. I ate food that I knew was addictive. Then came the realization: I was not willing. ~ Voices of Recovery […]
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