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The telephone is the hardest Tool for me to use. I have stubbornly resisted this Tool during all my ten years in program. Even in my teenage years, I did not like answering calls from my girlfriends. Whoever heard of a teenage girl who doesn’t like to talk with friends on the phone?

My disease causes me to feel inadequate, so I am sometimes at a loss for words during conversations. I am afraid of being a bore. My disease says, “You’re not an interesting conversationalist. Don’t bother calling anyone.” And as a compulsive overeater, I often lapse into a desire for isolation. I find myself retreating into my head.

A commitment to making phone calls ensures I rejoin the world and connect with other compulsive overeaters.

I remember something helpful a speaker once said: “I make calls not because it helps me, but because it is a service to the person I’m calling.” Phone calls may always be a challenge for me, but my recovery has taught me I must do the thing I do not want to do.

— Kathy W., Long Island, New York USA

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