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Promises Coming True

Poor me! A disagreement with my husband and with a daughter who didn’t want to talk decimated my serenity that […]

Babysitting Bliss

I have always loved to take care of kids. I grew up with many cousins and had a younger sister […]

Choosing Recovery

I am a food addict. Although this is at the core of who I am, as the years in recovery […]

A Recovering Mom

I tried hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, psychiatry, and acupressure. I instigated many group weight loss competitions and made my own meditation CD, recorded with my own voice. My lack of success did not stem from a lack of trying.

Happy as You Make Up Your Mind to Be

Recently my husband and I had the luxury of spending a week in the Florida sunshine…a most welcome break from […]

Conflict Resolution

I walked into the room of my very first FA meeting on a Sunday evening, feeling cocky, arrogant, pig headed, […]

Airport Travel in Recovery

Every time my husband and I have ever gone on vacation, by the time we got to our destination I […]

From Turmoil to Peace: Travelling the FA Road

Last night, as I was making my dinner, negative thoughts started plaguing me, as fear and anxiety crept into my […]

A Gymnast’s Story

I was always obsessed with how much I weighed and how my body looked. I constantly sized myself up in […]

Knocking at My Door

I got abstinent in a college town, where every other door was a food outfit. Many of the doors were […]

Being Present During Loss

My brother, two years my senior, died unexpectedly. It was a sad, heart-breaking and bewildering time for those of us […]

Persistent Resister

I was 21, bulimic, and beaten by food, but not beaten quite enough to be willing to take suggestions from […]

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