If you’re hesitant to give more service in OA, you may be surprised to learn the benefits that await you, both to your recovery and your everyday life.
Listen to this episode of Inside OA, where host Meg M. and OA trustee Laurie share the surprising ways OA makes service roles approachable for anyone and show us how stepping up to service can provide each of us with lasting benefits and fuller lives. For example, Laurie shares how her perspective on service changed from “What am I already good at?” to “What have I learned in OA? What can I do now that I wasn’t very good at before?” Through simple acts of service, Laurie has learned how to overcome destructive habits of isolation and procrastination, and further into her recovery journey, she even learned how to capably represent the interests of others. What’s more is OA gave her a safe space to practice these skills that now carry over into to her relationships with family, friends and colleagues.
Meg agrees. “My career has advanced because of those things,” she says, citing how service has taught her how to truly live Tradition Twelve.
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