RECOVERY FROM OBSESSION

Do you obsess about your weight, food, or exercise?

Here are some questions to ask yourself:

Is food just one of your many obsessions?
Don’t know how to stop emotional eating?
Are you also struggling with alcohol or other mind-altering substances?
Do you use mind-altering substances to change the way you feel?

Find out how AEA members have put down the food and other mind-altering substances and found freedom from obsession.

What is AEA?

Addictive Eaters Anonymous (AEA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from addictive eating.

Addictive Eaters Anonymous can help.

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Stories of recovery from obsession

Constant obsession lifted

My earliest childhood memories are of me eating food in secret. Up until the age of twenty-three, when I came into recovery, I went to...

Freed from obsession

I was born to working class parents in a large city. As far back as I can remember, I always felt like an alien, and I always worried....

Freed from my secret life

I came to my first meeting because my obsession with food was driving me crazy mentally, and because I was afraid I would not be able to...

From self hatred to sobriety

Growing up, I always felt different as if I had been born on the wrong planet. I thought the reason must have been because I was adopted...

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Any opinions expressed in these stories are those of the individual members, and do not necessarily reflect those of AEA as a whole.

How Addictive Eaters Anonymous Works

Members of Addictive Eaters Anonymous (AEA) achieve sobriety by sharing their experience, strength and hope with each other and living the Twelve Step programme of recovery as a way of life. By regular attendance at AEA meetings, getting a sponsor, working the steps, keeping in contact with sober members, and carrying the message of recovery to the still suffering addictive eater, members are freed from addictive eating and the obsession with food.

Is AEA for you?