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Spiritual Surrender - Absolute Commitment - Necessary Action - Emotional Healing
Eating Addictions Anonymous is a 12 step recovery program for men and women recovering from all forms of eating and body image addiction.
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Welcome to EAA/SANE. We welcome all who are interested in healing from eating and body image disorders in all forms. EAA is made up of overeaters, anorexics, bulimics, undereaters, binge eaters, grazers, exercise bulimics, etc. Most of us have negative relationships with our bodies, and our body image is often distorted. As our disease progresses, we come to measure our self worth by how we feel about our bodies. Therefore, most of us are consumed by feelings of inadequacy, desperation, and shame, since we can never measure up to our own unrealistic ideals, or those of society. Even talent, skill, education and accomplishment could not lessen our misery. Whatever form our disease takes, we share a dangerous obsession. We are all addicts, in bondage to our own minds, oppressed by our compulsion. In EAA we find a different way of living. The only requirement for EAA membership is the desire to stop abusing food and our bodies. Because we must deal with food daily, we believe the only lasting solution to our problem is an inner transformation from working the 12 steps of EAA with the help of a sponsor.
The SANE concept helps us grasp some core principles of recovery.
Spiritual Surrender
Absolute Commitment
Necessary Action
Emotional HealingAs we work the 12 steps of EAA, we find that an attitude of surrender to spiritual principles is essential for recovery. We make an absolute commitment to refrain from using food as a drug, and from other related behaviors. We go to whatever lengths are necessary. We Act to keep our recovery. With this new approach, the emotional healing that make life long recovery possible begins to take place.
While we feel a spiritual approach is critical, EAA is not a religious organization. We do not promote any particular religious tradition.
We have no opinion on any issues outside of 12 step recovery. We are not run by therapists, or doctors, or other professionals. We are simply recovering addicts, supporting others who wish to recover from our painful and destructive disease. We view recovery as a life and death issue since food abuse in its various forms kills more people than drugs, alcohol and nicotine combined. We offer a way out.
We have no dues or fees for membership. We are self supporting through our own contributions. We do not accept outside contributions, nor are we affiliated with any other organization, treatment center, hospital, or professional therapy facility.
Who is an addict?
Most of us try to deny it, but deep down inside we know. No matter how much or how little we eat, or what we look like to others, we feel compelled to practice self destructive behaviors with eating, dieting, exercise avoidance or compulsive exercise. These risked our health, and destroyed our self esteem, our relationships, and our lives. For us these behaviors become our drug.
An addict is a man or woman who has become trapped in a pattern of compulsive behavior from which they cannot break free alone. Few of us will seek help before the cost of our addiction becomes undeniable and unbearable. Some of us are forced to seek help by partners, friends or family members, others realize that their behavior is becoming life threatening, and after years of slow suicide, we are ready to try anything.
Only when we become willing to surrender to the recovery process, can we halt our downward spiral.
What is EAA?
EAA is a fellowship of men and women recovering from all aspects of eating addiction, and body and appearance obsession. Our primary purpose is recovery, and we welcome all who have or think they may have any form of eating addiction or appearance obsession.
We do not focus on diets, food plans or weight regulation. We have discovered that internal transformation is the only effective way of arresting our disease. In EAA we focus on internal growth and find lifelong recovery not just from bingeing, purging, chronic overeating, anorexia, etc., but also the shame and self hatred that accompanies our addiction.
In EAA we seek holistic, balanced recovery, encouraging members to address their body image issues very specifically. We believe that in recovery, obese persons do lose weight, and emaciated persons do gain, but that body size and eating abuses are merely symptoms of an addictive way of dealing with deeper problems. Whatever insecurities or other problems we have, they are greatly exacerbated by the warped values about appearance, size and weight most of us internalize. In our fellowship, we provide an alternative to the sick, obsessive thinking patterns we have developed over the course of a lifetime.
Why are we here?
We only come to EAA when we realize that our relationship with food, and to our bodies is insane, and that without help, we would continue to destroy ourselves through our addiction. When finally we are ready to leave behind our old approach, we are able to give ourselves to the principles of recovery. We come together to offer and seek support. We find that we gain more than we ever imagine. Instead of rigid attempts to manage our addiction, we discover a life of freedom, joy and balance.
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