Readings

For Today:
"The process of changing a lifestyle is more important than reaching a goal or measuring a performance." Theodore Isaac Rubin
Step One - surrender.
"We go to meetings, we make an effort to express our feelings openly, and we act as if the power to change, to abstain from compulsive overeating is already ours.
For today: I reject the idea that I can deal with compulsive overeating with diets, scales and weight charts. i do not have to measure my progress in this program."
Wow

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Voices of Recovery
The importance of making OA an integral part of my life.
Steps
Traditions
Concepts of Service
Higher Power guiding
spiritual, emotional, physical
Peace and serenity
Tools: meetings, telephone, plan of eating, sponsorship, writing, literature, anonymity, and service
Recovery tapestry
Continue to move forward

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In This Moment
It was such a selfish me - what about me - why doing this to me - ...
"In recovery: I'm learning what healthy relationships are, and, more importantly, how to be in them."
Better late than never...
And accepting others even though maybe different thoughts, ideas, actions...
But:
"I have choices of particpating in relationships or accepting that certain relationships are not good for me."

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Language of Letting Go

"Vulnerability
some of us may have made a decision that no one was ever going to hurt us again."
"Hurt feelings are a part of life, relationships, and recovery."
Overwhelmed...was yesterday. "today, we don't have to be so frightened of pain. It does not have to overwhelm us."
"We need only allow ourselves to feel vulnerable enough to feel hurt, when that's appropriate, and take responsibility for our feelings, behaviors, and what we need to do to take care of ourselves."
don't need to analyze or justify feelings
okay to fee hurt, cry, HEAL, move on to next feeling when time
"...our capacity to feel hurt will eventually be matched by our willingness and capacity to feel joy."
"Today, I will not strike out at those who cause me pain. I will feel my emotions and take responsibility for them. I will accept hurt feelings as part of being in relationships. I am willing to surrender to the pain as well as the joy in life."
Wow

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