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 »No Right Way
I have learned there is no right way to do the wrong thing. ~ Overeaters Overeaters, Third Edition (Kindle Locations 781-782). The best-laid plan, our most excellent thinking, will inevitably go wrong for us, for addicts, if we’re directing the play, […]
Continue reading »Sharing the Mess
When people share the mess instead of the message, at meetings or elsewhere, I realize that I am not alone in getting things backward. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 3353-3363). Sharing the mess, talking about what’s wrong, not in the […]
Continue reading »Chattle or Champion
“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no […]
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 […]
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