Fear--Where does it go in recovery?
Before I was in recovery, I was full of fear, doubt, and insecurity. I had a overall feeling that everything in the world was "going to hell in …
Before I was in recovery, I was full of fear, doubt, and insecurity. I had a overall feeling that everything in the world was "going to hell in …
OK, so like I'm not the most patient chick on the block. Let's just say for the record that impatience is my biggest character defect. It has …
I never understood what living life one day at a time really meant. I thought if people were doing this, they were not planning for the future. I …
Ok, so one of the things that I “ate over” was the fear, that overriding feeling that everything was getting ready to go to hell in a …
I realized 9 years ago that I was a food addict. I used flour, sugar, and fat products like an alcoholic uses the drink or a drug addict uses …
I am a recovering food addict in FA (Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous). I have maintained a 50 lb. weight loss 9 years. I was a yoyo dieter and heavy exerciser or I would have had 1,000s of lbs to lose. FA defines abstinence as weighed and measured meals with nothing in between, no flour, no sugar, and avoidance of individual binge foods (for me, this was popcorn, peanuts, potato chips, etc.). I could define abstience for myself in OA because I needed someone else to do that for me.