Hi,

Thank you so much for the recovery forums. I am fairly new to recovery from a life of obsessing about food and compulsive binge-eating. It took the last 5 years for me to accept that my life had become unmanageable, even though obvious signs have been everywhere for much longer than that. I am now fully aware of my disease and learning to live in the solutions rather than the struggles, fear and shame that surrounds binge-eating.

I have a sponsor and am working the 12-Steps, going to meetings. I am grateful and thankful to have hope and finally understand that I am not alone. I am giving up trying to control every single thing in my life. There is help and all I need to do is be willing and open to learn and grow.

If you are new to recovery from addiction, and not sure if 12-Step recovery is right for you, choose to keep showing up to the in-person and phone meetings. You will gradually learn that you are not alone and that there is help, just like I did. Listen to the shares of those who have walked the 12-steps ahead of you. They have much to share that will help you. Open your mind and be willing. This works if you work the steps.

Thank you all for being here.

Willing