You can accept as your higher power the reality that you can’t get loaded safely, no matter how much you wish you could. ~ AA Agnostica The year was 1934, the date nearly 81 years ago, at a kitchen table, […]
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Pride in Abstinence
Some of these people will get loaded again and eventually die of their addictions because they can’t bear to come back through those doors minus the badge of however many years they had without a drink or a drug. That […]
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Analytical minds demand real… logical progression from point A to points B, C, D, E, F…in order. Scientific explanation, hypotheses proven, rationale, arguments. Real triumphs, thrives, flourishes… until it doesn’t. Sometimes real can’t bridge the chasm, can’t yield results. Sometimes… […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »The Power of Choice
Working my program has also given me the power of choice with regard to food. ~ Abstinence, Second Edition (Kindle Locations 2405-2406). I am powerless over food and my life has become unmanageable. That’s true! Always has been, for me, […]
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