What is Refined Food Addiction
How do addictive food substances compare to other addictive chemicals? Addictive food substances are forms of plant life which have been refined or processed in order to be ingested by drinking,...
View ArticleStep Nine, Making Amends
As our food addiction progressed and affected every phase of our lives, lots of times we did things that broke our own rules. We lied, cheated and stole in order to get and hide our food supply. We...
View ArticleFood addiction is a Primary Disease
Food addiction is primary and not the result of any other diseases. Treating secondary diseases will not facilitate recovery. Treating the secondary diseases whether they be physical, mental or...
View ArticleStep Ten: The Character Building Step
Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step ten says that when we were wrong we promptly admitted it. It doesn’t say that when we were wrong we...
View ArticlePray More, Worry Less
“Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” Glen Turner I love quotes about worrying. They make me laugh and they make me think! Are...
View ArticleHappiness is an Inside Job
Happiness is an inside job. The only way happiness can be achieved is to remove the blocks that we ourselves create against it. During the holidays, we often spend more time with family and that can...
View ArticleTake Care of This Moment
Every day, every moment offers an opportunity for growth and change. Sometimes the opportunity is real, sometimes imagined. We have two types of challenges in life; first, there is reality where we...
View ArticleGetting a New Brain in Recovery
Let’s talk about the circles… The so-called circle work is a way to identify the ways we are stuck in our old patterns of thoughts, feelings and beliefs. We stay stuck as long as we continue to use...
View ArticleWhat Will Acceptance Not Cure?
We read these amazing words “… and acceptance is the answer to all my problems today”[1]. Could that possibly be true? Think of all of the ills in your world today and how acceptance applies. I started...
View ArticleResentment is a Spiritual Lesson Not Learned
Most of the time our anger, irritation, frustration, is just a tempest in a teapot. We make up a story to stoke our anger because we are angry, we need to be angry, and we want to be angry, so we...
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