Publication Committee Report – 12/07
Accomplished since our last report
Making Peace with Body Image
There is a Solution. There is Hope.
I lived with this skewed perception all of my life, and somewhere along the way I bought into the notion that if I could control my food and reach a perfect weight, I could magically fix the repulsive defects that were keeping me from living a full life. Full lives that I was sure the beautiful people in magazines were living. I set out to become one of those beautiful people. Continue reading
I’m recovering from bulimia
There is a Solution. There is Hope.
I have not binged or purged in over 65 days. That is a Miracle, because I believed I was doomed to live life as an active bulimic forever. At my heaviest I was 153 1/2 and at my lightest 111. I wore sizes 16 to 3. My first diet was at age 12 Continue reading
A message from a member with some time in the program…
There is a Solution. There is Hope
Intergroup Committee Meetings
I Put My Hand in Yours,
and Together We Can Do
What We Could Never Do Alone…
Intergroup needs your support!
There are many ways you can help and enhance your program
by doing service … jobs are big & small, they come in all sizes…
and are looking for unconditional love and acceptance.
Please consider attending the monthly meetings
and help support your Palm Beach County Intergroup!
Meeting Place: St. Christopher’s Church
Northwest corner of Haverhill & Belvedere
Day: 2nd Saturday of each month
Time: 10:45 to 12:00 noon
Feb. 14th, March 14th
April 11th May 9th
June 13th July 11th
August 8th September 12th
October 10th November 14th
December 12th
Acceptance
Pg. 449 Big Book Third addition
Pg. 418 Big Book Fourth addition
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation-some fact of my life-unacceptable to me, and can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, (food addiction) I could not stay sober (abstinent); unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world, as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes
When I first read this in a Big Book study about 20 years ago, it jumped Continue reading