Abuse & Addictions Category
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Faith and Fat (part 2)
Steve Arterburn Connection is the key to a lifetime of freedom from obesity. This is most difficult due to the benefits of isolation. Some want to maintain it for fear of rejection. Their shame in…
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Faith and Fat (part 1)
Steve Arterburn With the development of each new diet craze comes a new opportunity to help about 95% or more of those who fail. The more popular the diet that appears to work for everyone…
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Sowing and Reaping: Accountability
Excerpted from Life Recovery Bible by Steve Arterburn and Dave Stoop While in recovery, we learn to accept responsibility for our actions, even when we are powerless over our addiction. We come to realize that…
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The Stress Factor
Excerpted from Lose It for Life by Steve Arterburn & Linda Mintle You’d have to be living on another planet not to know that stress affects your body in negative ways. One of those negative…
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The Difference Between Surrender and Control
Excerpted from Lose It For Life by Steve Arterburn and Linda Mintle Surrender Control God is the Master of the Universe. I can master all things. God’s perspective is higher than mine. What I feel…
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A Poem About Overeating
I overate for happiness – and became unhappy. I overate for joy – and became miserable. I overate to be outgoing – and became self-centered. I overate to be sociable – and became argumentative and…
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So how does this surrender thing work?
Christine E. Buckingham “So, how does this surrender thing work?” some of you have asked me during our on-line LIFL web chats. “Isn’t that the same thing as just giving up?” No, that’s not what…
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Dealing with Depression
Becky Brown/National Institute of Mental Health, Depression.com ‘I have no energy.’ ‘I feel like there is just no use in trying to lose weight.’ ‘People are too difficult to deal with.’ If any of these…
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Weight Loss Nutrition (Part 3)
Remuda Ranch In previous articles, we discussed the when, where, how, and why of your eating habits. Now, let’s consider what you are eating by evaluating how often you eat certain foods. Take a look…
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Eat the Next Meal
Jennifer Cecil Don Durham, PhD, and Clinical Director at Remuda Ranch Center for Eating Disorders frequently advised the residents at the clinic to ‘eat the next meal.’ His counsel was to women who had ‘acted…
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