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Post by caressa on Nov 1, 2009 12:30:48 GMT -5
Was really struck by these words. See the reading posted below. eor.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=spuds&thread=7853How often I used food and other substances because I didn't feel loved, wanted, felt rejected and abandoned. Stuffing and making the feelings go away is no substitute for the real thing, which has to come from within me. I need it within to give it truly to others. My Higher Power's Love is unconditional. I need to remember that love. Attachments:
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Post by caressa222 on Sept 21, 2020 22:56:22 GMT -5
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Food Is Not Love
With our heads, we know that food is not the same thing as love. When this fact sinks into our emotions, we are released from our obsession with food. In order to reach this point of emotional development, we need to abstain physically from compulsive overeating. As long as we are physically addicted to refined sugars and starches and binge foods, we do not have the perspective necessary to move away from our emotional attachment to these foods.
It is easy for babies and children to confuse food with love. As they mature, they learn to discriminate between the two. If we are compulsive overeaters, we need the OA program and a spiritual awakening to bring clarity to our confusion. We have much emotional and spiritual growing up to do.
If our early needs for love was not satisfied, no amount of food will compensate. It is by giving love that we are able to fill our inner emptiness, and it is through our Higher Power that we are healed and made able to love.
May we remember in our hearts that food is not love.
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Post by caressa222 on Sept 21, 2020 22:58:35 GMT -5
Great read. Love is not something that can be found in outside people, places and things. We can't make Food our God.
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