I walked into the room and found a band of friends and it seemed to my logic that this was a group, a cohesive pack with no room for me, no way into the web nor would I want to […]
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Simple, Not Easy
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 […]
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Your choices of action may be limited—but your choices of thought are not. ~ Abraham It’s easy to believe we’re in charge of our actions but not our thoughts. The tricky thoughts have fooled us, taking control and driving us […]
Continue reading »On the Pentacle of Life
I descended into a horrific food rock bottom, which finally convinced me that compulsive overeating is a progressive, dangerous, and slow-killing disease of mind, body, and spirit. My slide was halted only by seeking help from fellow OA members and […]
Continue reading »Looking for Help in Wrong Places
Where I live is inside; nothing on the outside changes that. ~ ForToday (Kindle Location 272). Changing me on the inside is not limited to internal change. But changing everything outside… house, job, friends, family, car, location, anything external, if the […]
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