Most organizations have a list of qualifications for membership, but in Overeaters Anonymous we have only one requirement: a desire to stop eating compulsively. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Locations 1450-1451). Precious and priceless […]
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It is important for him to realize that your attempt to pass this on to him plays a vital part in your recovery. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Locations 1270-1271). I know what vital signs are but looked up the word […]
Continue reading »The Circle
We stand hand in hand, ready to practice principles outside the rooms, in life, in all our affairs. Hand in hand, we transfer strength, receiving, giving, sharing, endowed with power of the whole to buoy us, to carry us, until we once […]
Continue reading »Elevator Speech
I need to pitch my book to editors, publishers, reviewers…let me tell you while we ride this metal cage a half-dozen floors – my elevator speech. Am I as willing to talk of recovery? Given the chance to influence an […]
Continue reading »I Am the Clay
The potter, the painter, the boss — that’s me. I’ll direct the play, write the book, design the cover. That’s where I’m comfortable, the role I know. But that’s not how I’m cast this time, not now, not ever again, not […]
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