When I first joined OA, I was amazed to learn all the ways I identified with Bill W as a Compulsive Eater and alcoholic. My life was very different than his, but the overall arc was the same. I feel different. I didn’t belong. So I turned to food. Later, like Bill, I discovered alcohol […]
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My Story
I was borne of mutilation: my arm roughly pulled through Mom’s birth canal then her belly flayed open horizontally and vertically when the doctor realized she had grabbed my hand, not my foot. I was pulled into life, confused and alone, my mother dead. Blessedly, she was revived 5 minutes later full of life and […]
