Doctor’s Opinion (Big Book xxv)

Stories in recovery also involve being able to feel all our feelings, knowing they won’t kill us, and knowing they have absolutely nothing to do with food; learning when we are full of feelings versus full of food; learning how to get still, whether through meditation, spiritual practice, or being duct taped to the chair to start; learning how to listen to our own intuition, beliefs, and truths and to let go—piece by piece, message by message—those that no longer serve us; writing our own non-fiction story and being willing to rewrite our old “perfect” ending with the “perfect” body, finding instead one we can sustain and that can sustain us: our own groove. This is the rough, inelegant, challenging road to recovery—and not for the faint-hearted.