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- "As a mom, you're only as happy as your least happy child." This is a quote from ABC's new show, "The Middle" with Patricia Heaton. Another one is, "You DO for family." Love this show. I laugh wayyyy too loud at it, and it kinda annoys my kids,...
- ...send me a dream ... or what the heck, how 'bout just some sleeeeeeeeeep...I don't need no stinking dreams, just a full, luscious, lovely night's sleeeeeeeeppppp, ohhhh, what would that feel like... Up at 3 a.m. again, knockin' around the house,...
- The urge to drink can just sorta slink out the back door one day... you might not even notice it's missing for a few months... and then one day you look at someone else's drink, and it just looks like... nothing... and this tiny little peaceful bell...
- Yeah, well, that little turd sent both my husband and myself lovely lovely text messages for Christmas... "I no longer want you in my life, you are terrible blah blah blah vomit diarrhea snot pus boogers and a partridge in a poop tree..." or...
- "Aware" said something in another post that sent me off on a whole... well... it hit me hard. She said our EC's use Christmas as a weapon, and the actual meaning of Christmas has been lost... So true. And also especially, ESPECIALLY if there are no...
- This is my first post in this group, I just found it a couple days ago, and am so very grateful to be reading all your stories, and feeling the support, strength, and wisdom of the members... I wish I had found you months ago... but, well, here I...
- Also titled, "Why Doesn't God Want Me To Go To a Second AA Meeting?"I've been tossing around the idea of going to AA... I went to one meeting about 8 or 9 months ago, and never went back. Nothing wrong with AA, mostly it was me, my social anxiety, I...
- I'd like to propose something: This board needs a couple CL's who are OF THE ED COMMUNITY. Recovering bulimic or recovering anorexic or recovering EDNOSic, whatever, just someone who is involved with the board, someone who takes the time to get to...
- I recently attending a 2-week training, 8 hrs a day, 20 trainees, 2 trainers.... every day, all day, 22 people in a banquet room for 80 hours together, 22 people from all walks of life, people of all sorts of shapes, sizes, ethnicities, ages,...
- Just a couple weeks ago, I went out to dinner with a group of new friends, we were at "peer" training, all of us in some sort of recovery, be it mental health, or substance abuse, or both... So the lovely old stone house inn... with the fireplaces...
- I learned something in a recent training course, on the subject of active listening and peer support: I learned that I've been making one sort of mistake over and over again... if someone expresses that they are anxious or nervous about something, I...
- Just a word about my husband, I wrote this in my journal a few months ago, and didn't publish it, made it a private entry, but want to put it out there...I tried several times over the past few years to get through to my husband that my drinking was...
- I'm almost a year and a half free of binge/purge Bulimia... Sometimes I look back and I feel so very distant from that person, from that time (30 years of my life!), it's hard to remember.... which is good, most times I am free of the urges,...
- Someone posted in the Alcoholism forum that they were having relapse dreams, and waking and being so relieved that it wasn't real, that they were still sober, still on track, and then wondering, hey, does this mean I WANT to drink again... I've had...
- Was just landing here for a sec trying to catch my breath after working all day, barreling in to Dairy Queen for a bag of after-the-band-concert Dilly Bars, zooming home to be here in time for Verizon guy to come out and hook up my service, calling...