‘IT’S AN INSIDE JOB’ – “Denial of the truth leads to destruction. Only an honest admission to ourselves of the reality of our condition can save us from our destructive eating.” (Overeaters Anon., 12 & 12, p. 6)
Category: Step 1
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Why Faith & Trust Go Hand in Hand – Step 2
Attachment injury may show up as a hesitation to trust people or a process, as a reluctance to be part of a recovery group or sangha, or as a core belief that we don’t belong. (Recovery Dharma, p.11)
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The Vast Richness of the Universe Unfurls as Sanity is Restored with a Sigh – Step 2 begins
“Somtimes
incompetence is
useful. It helps you
keep an open
mind.Roberto Cavalli (1940 – ) Italian inventor / fashion designer
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The Key to Being how We are Meant to Be, i.e., “Happy, Joyous and Free” – Step 1
“And in the sweet-
ness of friendship let
there be laughter and the
sharing of pleasures. For in
the dew of little things the
heart finds its morning
and is refreshed.”– Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931) Lebanese-American, world-renown poet
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How Self-will Snowballs into a Conflagration of Pain, not Glory – Step 1
OTHERWISE, SELF-WILL ENDS & COMPULSION BEGINS –
“Like self-starvation
with food or compul-
sive debting or hoard-
ing with money, depriva-
tion with sex can make
one feel powerful and
defended against all
hurts.” (Sexual Anor-
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Finding Happiness and Peace in the Face of Utter Uncertainty and Dread – Step 1
.T”By bringing about a change in our outlook toward things and events, all phenomena can become sources of happiness.” – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama (1935 – ) On being happy
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The Reasons Why You May Feel You’re Paying Too High a Price for Recovery – Step 1
“Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.” – Paulo Coelho (1947 – ) Brazilian novelist/lyricist on paying the price
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Revealing Secrets from the “First Chapter in the Book of Wisdom” – Step 1
“Honesty is
the first chapter
of the book of wisdom.”– Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) U.S. President
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How Admitting Personal Powerlessness is an Admission that We can’t Control Everything – Step 1
“This is the bitterest pain among men [and women], to have much knowledge but no power.” Herodotus (484 BC – 425 BC) Greek, Historian
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Umoja: the Loving Connections that Bring Us Together as One – Trad. 1
GIVING COMFORT AND UNDERSTANDING – “He thought it better to give comfort than to receive it; better to understand than to be understood; better to forgive than to be forgiven.” (12 & 12, p. 101)
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