Recovery Meditations ~ Others ~ One Day at a Time ~ August 5, 2010

~ OTHERS ~

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"In the deepest part of a compulsive

eater's soul ... is the realization

that recovery begins when we find one

another."

Anonymous


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Growing up in the deep South in the

1950's, I witnessed things I never

dreamed could happen. It taught me

lessons I have never forgotten. Little

did I think that someone like me could

ever be discriminated against. After

all, I was the right color, the right

size, the right religion and lived on

the right side of town.

Messages began to be taped early on in

that little girl's brain ... into the

psyche of that teenager who worked so

hard to achieve ... and into the young

woman who had the world by the tail. In

adulthood those messages began to play

... and food made the messages easier to

hear. So began the life of a compulsive

eater. So began discrimination because

of my weight.

Years later I would be grateful for my

life as an overweight adult. I would

look back and see that the God of my

understanding was preparing me to see

discrimination as a disease of the

soul. But what happened to give me

serenity and peace and contentment? I

found another compulsive eater. And then

I found another ... and another. And

recovery began.

ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .


I will overwrite those taped messages;


I will not regret the past;


And I will cherish my fellows forever.