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Podcast Episode: Not Alone Anymore

What is this?

This is an episode of the Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) podcast (https://foodaddicts.podbean.com/e/not-alone-anymore/). Here is the synopsis of this episode.

Always feeling she wasn’t enough, this food addict struggled, ate, covered up her eating, tried to exercise it off…and repeat. When she heard people in Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) talk about food the way she thought about it, she knew she was home.

How can this help me?

Podcasts by food addicts in recovery offer a powerful resource for those struggling with food addiction. These audio experiences provide hope, education, and support by sharing personal recovery journeys, discussing addiction mechanisms, and exploring effective treatment strategies. Listeners benefit from hearing authentic stories of overcoming food addiction, learning coping mechanisms, and gaining insights from recovered individuals. By creating a sense of community and demonstrating that recovery is possible, these podcasts can motivate suffering food addicts to seek help, understand their condition, and take positive steps towards healing and transformation.

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Book: Waiting: The Nonbeliever’s Higher Power

Twelve step programs can have a lot of religious overtones, and that can make people who don’t believe in the Christian god feel left out. The programs are actually meant to be “spiritual” and not religious, but even the word “spiritual” makes some of us cringe. This book is about finding the kind of spirituality that can help an addict achieve recovery, without reference to any religion, and without sounding like you are joining some sort of new age cult.

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Article: The Twelve Steps: A Different View

Twelve step programs are rooted in Christianity, so they can be off-putting to people who are not Christian, or not religious. This article lists 20+ alternative ways of conceptualizing the twelve step in a non-religious way.

https://www.omagod.org/alt-steps

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Book: The Little Book: A Collection of Alternative 12 Steps

Twelve step programs are rooted in Christianity, so they can be off-putting to people who are not Christian, or not religious. This book gives twenty alternative ways of thinking about the twelve steps, none of which require a belief in a “supernatural interventionist deity”. The author, Roger C., is the founder of the “We Agnostics” AA group.