Like compulsive overeaters, normal eaters will sometimes find pleasure and escape from life’s problems in excess food. Compulsive overeaters, however, often have an abnormal reaction when we overindulge. We can’t quit. A normal eater gets full and loses interest in food. […]
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A Minute Poem
The rules for a minute poem: 3 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas) 8 syllables in the first line of each stanza 4 syllables in the remaining lines of each stanza rhyme scheme: aabb/ccdd/eeff written in strict iambic meter Recovery in twelve […]
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They’re simple, not east. Twelve steps, Eleven hundred forty-five characters, Two hundred one of those spaces. Awakening, principles, meditation, overeaters, and unmanageable the only words with four or more syllables, thirty-two two-letter words, Memorize the steps in a day, work […]
Continue reading »Call Me at 6:30 Every Morning
I’m glad to be your sponsor and grateful for the trust You’ll call me and I’ll answer I know it’s early but you must. You’ll tell me of the day before mistakes you made, the good and bad of choices […]
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Today I live in the answer—the Steps and the tools. I changed residence, and the problem went away. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 314-315). We talk in Recovery of a geographic, of an attempt to manage an unmanageable life by […]
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