Healing the division between the feeling and unfeeling self begins with the willingness to accept our vulnerability and to forgive our self-hate. ~ Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families, ACA WSO Inc. Kindle Edition.
Do you hate yourself?
Many of us in Recovery do, or did!
For those of us in Overeaters Anonymous,
it’s often the cause and/or the result
of our compulsive use of food,
either excesses or deprivation,
and that’s often true
of other addictions as well.
Are you willing now to heal
the division between the feeling
and unfeeling self, beginning
with the willingness to accept
your vulnerability and to forgive your self-hate?
Can you stop the noise in your head chanting,
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me
I think I’ll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones
Eensie weensy squeensy ones
See how they wiggle and squirm!
It’s not what should be.
Remember the second greatest commandment,
And a second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
See? the assumption is you love,
not hate, yourself!
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