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The following guidelines are offered as suggestions only; they are guides to aid you in deciding what information to collect. We invite any and all of you to participate in recording your local history and in gathering local historical memorabilia. This will help to ensure that your history is not lost. The World Service Office … Continued
Use this skit to present a fun reminder of the diversity of our recovery literature and our approaches to the Twelve Steps. This skit is intended to be exaggerated and read in an over-the-top style. Please feel free to change the names as you see fit. The Inclusive Group of Overeaters Anonymous is opening its … Continued
Digital communication was unforeseen when the Twelve Traditions were written. It is important to consider how the use of electronic media might impact our own or anyone else’s anonymity as we recover and help to carry the message of recovery offered by the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous. These guidelines build on … Continued
These guidelines have been developed through the experience of OA members and the Board of Trustees, who have contributed to their creation. They reflect OA Traditions and Concepts of Service as reflected in our OA Conference-approved literature. These guidelines are strong suggestions based on the experience of those who have gone before. The guidelines do … Continued
Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity When we first come to Overeaters Anonymous, we are preoccupied with our own recovery and weight loss. It is not long, however, before we realize this is not a diet club, as we may have expected or perhaps experienced before. We hear the … Continued
Receipts US dollars Funds from prior year reserves $0 Bequests $0 Contributions $952,600 Delegate Support Fund $5,000 Professional Exhibits Fund $2,500 Translation Fund $10,000 General Literature $72,600 Book Sales (Gross): Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition $61,300 For Today $57,850 Voices of Recovery, Second Edition $42,650 Taste of Lifeline $7,300 The … Continued
How do OA members “quit”compulsive eating? Someone close to you has decided to get help with their food problem by coming to Overeaters Anonymous. To try to stop eating compulsively may not seem like a big decision at first, but it can be life-changing. Many of us know smokers who have stopped smoking, alcoholics who … Continued
The group secretary is a link in a chain that disseminates important information in two ways: from the World Service Office to group members and from the group to the World Service Office. Sending current group information or changes to the World Service Office is a job that usually falls onto the broad shoulders of … Continued
Beloved Members, Groups, and Service Bodies of Overeaters Anonymous, Humility, of course, is one of the fundamental principles not only of individual recovery but of the practices of OA as a whole. Such humility is apparent in the readiness with which OA members, groups, and service bodies have embraced the first paragraph of OA’s Unity … Continued
This inventory is divided into three parts and can be used at three separate meetings, or a special meeting could be planned specifically for using this inventory. The three parts of the inventory are: When you have completed the inventory, you will probably discover that your region has more strengths than you realized. After all, … Continued