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This writing exercise is an approach using the Twelve Steps of OA to deal with life’s challenges without turning to food. Enhance your recovery by using this document individually or as the focus of a workshop. © 2015 Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. Board approved Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. World Service OfficeLocation: 6075 Zenith Court NE, Rio Rancho, … Continued
Have you ever wished you could lose ten pounds (5 kg)? Twenty (9 kg)? Forty (18 kg)? A hundred (45 kg) or more? Have you ever wished that once you got it off you could keep it off? Welcome to OA; welcome home! Have you sometimes felt out of step with the world, like a … Continued
© 2018 Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. All rights reserved.Excerpted from #980 Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. World Service OfficeLocation: 6075 Zenith Court NE, Rio Rancho, NM 87144, USAMailing address: PO Box 44727, Rio Rancho, NM 87174-4727, USATelephone: +1 505-891-2664
A special introduction to OA for men and women in treatment We of Overeaters Anonymous want to introduce and invite you to our program of recovery. Even if you are familiar with other Twelve Step recovery programs, we believe the information provided here will help answer some basic questions about OA which are often asked … Continued
The only thing that is required is that you have a desire to stop eating compulsively. A major aspect of military life is discipline: the greater the discipline, the more professional the military member. Yet we are still human beings, with the same needs, wants, and desires as civilian members of society. Some of us … Continued
Download the PDF in English Recovery Insurance Policy I, __________ on this day do hereby give __________ __________ (a recovering OA member) permission to take me to a meeting if they do not receive a phone call from me within __________ days of our last conversation, or if they have not seen me at an … Continued
“I need OA to be there for me. Therefore, it is my responsibility to keep OA healthy. A smile, a touch, a word of support can keep someone coming back . . .” OA works. A Gallup survey of OA’s Fellowship reports that 86 percent of our members experienced improvements in our physical health, our emotional and mental … Continued
I put my hand in yours, and together we can dowhat we could never do alone.No longer is there a sense of hopelessness,no longer must we each dependupon our own unsteady willpower.We are all together now,reaching out our hands for power andstrength greater than ours, and as we join hands,we find love and understandingbeyond our … Continued
Always to extend the hand and heart of Overeaters Anonymous to all who share my compulsion—for this I am responsible. Carrying the message to others simply means to unselfishly share our experience, our strength and our hope with them. With the miraculous gift of recovery that is ours in OA comes the privilege and the … Continued