Insanity is like being fragmented. Sanity is like being whole. ~ Elizabeth Falling to pieces, coming apart at the seams, holding life together with duct tape the whole world is nuts…and so am I. Then, hopeless, giving up, unable to […]
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There’s always free cheese . . . in a mousetrap. ~ bumper sticker seen by Sally Jadlow A frozen puddle, looks like thick ice, I’d try it, gingerly, but try it. The old diet mentality, try a bite, even a […]
Continue reading »Staying in the Saddle
Then my appetite reappeared. I quickly surrendered to it, thinking how little will power it would take to get started again. But I couldn’t get restarted, and I learned another truism: It’s easier to stay on than to get on. […]
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Humor is a most important ingredient of love. ~ Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition (Kindle Location 3109). Addiction is serious, life-threatening, deadly… but recovering people laugh at their past, at their beliefs, at their mistakes, about hurts. Recovery people laugh because […]
Continue reading »All or Nothing
…if we couldn’t be the best, we didn’t want to play the game. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Location 180). I have to earn your approval, to tell you honors I’ve received or degrees […]
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