Yo-yo dieting. Corseting undergarments to get pants to fasten. Pretending to be fat AND happy. Trying every new gadget, each new diet, mind control, magic fixes by the dozen. I’ve played all my life, got good at the games but […]
Continue reading »Wrong Way Home
A first grader, I was to walk home from school. Mother went over the route with me many times, and I know the turns, the way to go. I could! Then, when I walked out of the door on the […]
Continue reading »Cruising with Compulsive Eaters
What does a glutton’s heaven look like? A ship full of never-ending food, free for the taking, a chocolate fountain, people to bring it all to you, time to eat and eat and eat and eat. What of a recovering […]
Continue reading »Hard and Fast Rules
Well, maybe a few hard and fast rules. Use them if they they make sense to you. ~ Writing Dialogue by Tom Chiarella The only requirement is a desire to stop eating compulsively. Steps? We’ve got them. Traditions? Yes…a dozen […]
Continue reading »Joy and Fear
Joy always had an expansive effect, just as fear has a contracting effect. ~ Emmet Fox Fear we know well, having lived it, having personally verified the Big Book assertion This short word somehow touches about every aspect of our […]
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