A person can never be too overweight, too underweight, or too normal in weight to be an OA member. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Location 1404). Welcome to Overeaters Anonymous. Welcome home! Yes, home. Come […]
Continue reading »My Pleasure Source
What brings me pleasure? Is it the resentments I cherish, replaying them each morning, keeping them fresh, nurturing the victim identification they give me? What brings me pleasure? Eating to oblivion, stuffing my face to dull my brain, to disguise […]
Continue reading »Love Is Selfless
Love is selfless, yet it exhilarates the self. ~ Karen Casey, Each Day a New Beginning A conundrum, it is. Confusing, difficult, seemingly contradictory. Love is selfless… unselfish, concerned with hopes and dreams, wishes and needs of someone…everyone…else before your own. […]
Continue reading »The Pinocchio Effect
It’s simple cause and effect, the desire to look good, the need to tell others what we want them to believe, our truth as we’ve constructed it. But the result isn’t an improved image but a lowered head…not really because […]
Continue reading »Those Who Had What We Hate
Sometimes I ask a trusted servant to do my inventory, to tell me what I’m not seeing. ~ David S We’re told to look for somebody who has what we want and to ask them to sponsor us. But does […]
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