I use my sponsor for any serious problems regarding food/emotional situations that happen. Also, for any/all Step writing/reading assignments as my sponsor can guide me how it worked for him. Then I will learn to use what is suggested by my sponsor, as well as my own learned experience in the rooms to keep me alive from my defects, my food addictions/behaviors, and my overall dilemma. When my food is better, then I get better and we get better together.
How do you set guidelines for sponsor or sponsees? I set them as my sponsor operates with me. By having my sponsees call on time when they are supposed to and to not waste this opportunity in working with another overeater. Read/write all Step assignments. Always attend meetings. It is a two-way street with both of us earning/improving our own emotional recovery and abstinence. This is a life and death situation for me, so sponsorship is vital.
—Anthony C.