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The
Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-H.O.W. Concept has been formed to offer
the compulsive eater who accepts the 12 steps and 12 traditions as a
program of recovery, a disciplined and structured approach. The
H.O.W. groups have been formed in the belief that our disease is
absolute and therefore only absolute acceptance of the H.O.W.
program will offer any sustained abstinence to those of us whose
compulsion has reached a critical level.
Therefore, the
H.O.W. plan of eating, steps, traditions, and tools of recovery are
not suggested. Rather, we accept them as requirements for our
recovery.
Meetings are
dedicated to the concept of remaining honest, open-minded, and
willing to listen...this is the H.O.W. of the program. We pray that
the collective group conscience and love that these ideals offer us
will promote a strong sense of security that will enable us to
experience a new unity and wholeness with all those around us. And,
that the H.O.W. ideal will help us to progress in our program of
recovery on a daily basis.
To be certain,
much of our strength is found in the structure of meetings and in
the daily adherence to the program as it is written in our
literature.
Each group
also firmly understands that after our recovery has begun through
abstinence and the taking of the first three steps, our further
surrender to the additional steps of recovery offers us a promise of
happiness, contentment, and achievement in all areas of our lives.
We insure our
continued and sustained abstinence from compulsive overeating by
being forever aware that God is doing for us what we have never been
able to do for ourselves.
May God, as each of us understands Him, open our minds and
hearts to the love which is manifest in this room. Amen
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