Gambling and grief digest

September 2010 Volume 1, Issue 8

Living Lives of Deprivation

I am reading a
book right now
called,
"Woman, Food
and God," by
Geneen
Roth. The
following does a
wonderful job of
explaining
addiction in
general but she relates it to
food. If you decided to get the
book or look at it this paragraph
is on page 37...
"I tell them the helicopter story. I
tell them that if compulsive eating
is anything, it's a way we leave
ourselves when life gets
hard. When we don't want to
notice what is going
on. Compulsive eating is a way
we distance ourselves from the
way things are when they are not
how we want them to be. I tell
them that ending the obsession
with food is all about the capacity
to stay in the present moment. To
not leave themselves. I tell them
that they don't have to make a
choice between losing weight and
doing this. Weight loss is the
easy part; anytime you truly listen to
your hunger and fullness, you lose In this issue:
weight. But I also tell them that
compulsive eating is basically a refusal Living Lives of Deprivation
to be fully alive. No matter what we
weigh, those of us who are compulsive
eaters have anorexia of the soul. We
refuse to take in what sustains us. We
Living Lives of 1
live lives of deprivation. And when we
Deprivation
can't stand it any longer, we binge.
The way We are able to accomplish all
of this is by the simple act of bolting-
of leaving ourselves-hundreds of times
a day." (Italics added) Gambling 1
Treatment at a
Recovery is about asking for what we Reduced Fee!
want, standing up for ourselves. Many
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cause more urges to “binge” on the
addiction. It is about having small
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rather than depriving ourselves of the
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Be aware of the emotion of  Gambling Addiction
resentment and the “impulse to bolt,”
or avoid or get away. When we  Compulsive Spending/
experience these it means we are Shopping
doing too much for others and not
doing enough for ourselves.  Relationship Problems
In recovery: focus on self care!  Grief and Loss

G a m b l i n g Tr e a t m e n t a t a R e d u c e d F e e !  Depression and/or Anxiety

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