Today I immersed myself in recovery. And I can see that I am changing. When my head gets loud, I call my sponsor and she always tells me to do the same thing. “Call three alcoholic women, pray, and get into service”. And I usually do what she says and sometimes everything seems to fall into …
I met with my sponsor today. How does that work-that sitting with your sponsor in her Dodge minivan and reading the first 14 pages of Bill’s Story can lead to a complete change in perspective? Well it does. And it almost always has a positive effect. I went to a meeting this morning-a meditation meeting. …
I began showing signs of obsessive compulsive disorder at the early age of 4, when I began lining my stuffed animals, which were predominantly teddy bears, along two ceiling high shelves in my bedroom. My bedroom was a bright lemon yellow with fluorescent lights running along the sides of the ceiling behind a piece of the ceiling that …
Today, although I did a lot, a lot of time was spent in my head. Dwelling on the past, feeling a little bit resentful, and looking towards the future. I heard in a meeting about a week ago that I’m no longer a victim, I’m a volunteer. I know this is true yet it’s a truth …
This is day 4 of National Eating Awareness Disorders Week…as I always say, for those of us with eating disorders or with friends, colleagues, or family members with eating disorders, every day is eating disorders day and every week is eating disorders week. This year’s theme is Everybody knows Somebody and today’s thought of the …
Getting abstinent from an eating disorder is like traveling to hell and back, looking Satan straight in his fiery eyes and spitting in his face. Wrestling him until he tires and living to tell the story behind the scars he left above your left eye. It’s the single most difficult thing I …
So if you would have told me six years ago, that I would be putting on a ‘Black Swan’ inspired outfit and stoking myself up for a Lady Gaga Concert, I would have told you that you were off the map crazy! Yet, here I am lacing up some black shiny over the thigh boots …
Image by Studio Jones www.etsy.com A few years back I read a study done on two separate sets of boys. Group One was being raised by a single mother. Group Two had both parents raising them and present in the home, but in this group the father was absent due to work and travel …
You know it when you see it. It’s subtle but intense. It is that look of terror in the eyes of girls all over the country right about now. Not all girls; mostly middle to upper middle class girls. And not girls who go to schools with required uniforms. Heck, maybe this just affects all …
Crossy Road is a unique mobile game and for many reasons. One reason is because the developers give away their own crossy road cheats to give everyone a chance to get free coins, another is because they aren’t like the many other free mobile games and don’t have a bunch of ads basically begging to the user …
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