MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE FOR TODAY

 

"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be."

George Sheehan 

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RECOVERY MEDITATIONS
One Day at a Time
February 20, 2012

~ SECRETS ~

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There were deep secrets hidden in my heart, never said for fear others
would scoff or sneer. At last I can reveal my sufferings, for the
strength I once felt in silence has lost all its power.

Deirdra Sarault

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I've heard it said in program that we are only a sick as the secrets
we keep. If that is the case, then I was very sick when desperation
forced me through the doors of ths wonderful fellowship. Not one of my
friends or family knew what I was doing around food, as most of it was
done in secret, and I was always careful to remove all the evidence. I
couldn't believe that anyone would love me if they knew what I was
doing around food, and felt that I was either really bad or totally
crazy, or both. But for the first time ever, I was able to come clean
about what I was doing around food, and I wasn't judged or frowned
upon. The love and acceptance I have received here has been totally
overwhelming, but in addition I found out that others had done the
same or similar things to what I had done, and so for the first time
ever, I felt that I wasn't alone.

Not only have I been able to talk freely about my food and what I had
been doing, as well as what it was doing to me, but in the fourth and
fifth step, I was finally able to share with another person my darkest
deepest secrets, that for years I'd thought had made me this terrible
person. It was in fact in sharing all the things that I'd thought of
as so bad, that I came to realise that it was only my magnifying mind
that had made them appear so, and that in fact they really weren't bad
at all. I would never have found that out, had I not been in this
program, and I'm so grateful for the relief that sharing all these
things has given me.

ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .

I will learn to get honest and share with my sponsor and others in
this program, all the things that are bothering me, whether it be food
or other issues, so I can be relieved of the pain that all my secrets
are causing me.

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