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Your Newsletter Wants To Hear From You!

By admin
January 13, 2023
in :  Fellowship, Service, Welcome Home, What's new at OAFS, Writing
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This newsletter will always be YOUR newsletter. But it is MOST your newsletter when itscontributions come from you, the members of OA Foot Steps Virtual Intergroup. It doesn’t have to be a long, detailed article (though it certainly can be up to 500 words). Here are some ideas: It can be done anonymously or be credited (last initial only please)Click …

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A Note from the Publisher

By admin
July 14, 2023
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This edition of our newsletter is focused on diversity. Diversity in all senses of the word. The best definition I found and added to was – Diversity is the range of human differences, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, social class, physical or mental ability or attributes, religious or ethical values system, national …

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Outreach Around The World

By admin
July 14, 2023
in :  Compulsive Overeating, DIVERSITY, Fellowship, Meetings, RECOVERY, Recovery Around the World, Relationships, Telephone, The Twelve Steps of OA, TOOLS, Welcome Home, Working the Program
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When I first joined OA in 1996 we gathered at the “Lemon Squeezer” church in Victory Park, Johannesburg. It smelled of highveld dust and floor polish. At 30, I seemed to be the youngest in the room filled with middle-class white women who looked like my elderly relatives. Just two years into South Africa’s democracy integration wasn’t happening and the …

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The more trust I gain, the more I believe I am just as good as anybody else.

By admin
July 14, 2023
in :  DIVERSITY, Meetings, Neuro-Diversity, TOOLS, Welcome Home
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I feel grateful that early through the OA doors I was told about OA Foot Steps. Until then, I went to numerous meetings, but felt like I had an added layer to my disease that ‘regular’ people didn’t understand. I have bipolar and anxiety. While people may only be trying to be helpful in saying just dont pick up the …

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Revovery in OA Gives Me Life

By admin
July 14, 2023
in :  Fellowship, HP, Recovery Around the World, TOOLS, Welcome Home, Writing
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-Jackie S

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Neurodiverse and Working My Steps

By admin
July 14, 2023
in :  DIVERSITY, Fellowship, Higher Power, How it Works, HP, Neuro-Diversity, RECOVERY, Service, Spiritual Program, Sponsorship, Welcome Home, Working the Program
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I came into the program about 2 years ago. I knew about OA as I had been in another 12 step fellowship for over 40 years. I had been to my doctor for the millionth time, and she asked me “when are you going to stop this overeating cause you are going to die. This is serious! Your cholesterol is …

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I’m Still an Agnostic and I Still Keep Coming Back

By admin
July 14, 2023
in :  ABOUT OA, Atheists & Agnostics, DIVERSITY, Higher Power, Keep Coming Back, TOOLS, Welcome Home
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As a longtime agnostic, I had a lot of hesitation as I walked into a church basement to attend my first OA meeting. My doubts quickly multiplied when I heard them read the Twelve Steps. I was distressed by the references to God, especially to a male God to whom I was supposed to “turn over my will”. As a feminist, …

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Bulimic, Restrictor, Agnostic Freethinker living with BPD

By admin
July 14, 2023
in :  Anorexia & Bulimia, Atheists & Agnostics, DIVERSITY, Freethinkers, Higher Power, Neuro-Diversity, Welcome Home
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Hi. I’m Claire, compulsive overeater (COE), bulimic, restrictor, agnostic freethinker and living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) (-emotionally unstable personality disorder). ~~When I first came to program I did feel different and marginalized. I was reluctant to disclose my beliefs and neurodiversity due to fear of judgement that I had so often experienced – I don’t need fixing. I would …

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Interview with Monica S – Let’s talk about Diversity.

By admin
July 14, 2023
in :  2 Way Prayer, Atheists & Agnostics, DIVERSITY, Higher Power, LGBTQ+, Neuro-Diversity, OA Foot Steps VIG, Service, Spiritual Program, The Twelve Concepts of Service, Welcome Home, What's new at OAFS, Working the Program
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Monica is the Chair of the PIPO committee of OA Foot Steps, the Co-Chair of Unity with Diversity at World Services, and a WSBC delegate. Q: What Is the Goal and aspirations of the PIPO unity with Diversity?  A: The mission is to attract & draw in, compulsive eaters to OA, and to attract people from under represented communities in …

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Question of the Day

By admin
July 14, 2023
in :  Atheists & Agnostics, DIVERSITY, Freethinkers, Neuro-Diversity, Recovery Around the World, Spiritual Program, Welcome Home
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“How do you find support with mental health disorders or neurodiversity (bipolar, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, ADHD, sensory processing disorders, depression, etc…)? How and when have you disclosed your disorder to fellows in OA., and/or how and when have you disclosed that you are a member of OA in a mental health groups? How does it affect your recovery?” I tell …

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Spotlight on the OA Outreach groups

By admin
July 14, 2023
in :  Telephone, TOOLS, Welcome Home, Working the Program
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When I started the first outreach group in OA, it was confusing for people. I had put together guidelines to keep the chat safe, and there was resistance. The time keeping guidelines, and the no posting other than outreach requests in the chat, were not necessarily understood. People didn’t really know how to use it and were shy. I was …

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  • I’m Still an Agnostic and I Still Keep Coming Back
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