Hot off the press!! The Experience, Strength & Hope Newsletter (ESH) has hit the stands with a great collection of new articles and submissions! Our third edition of 2026 offers a series of new articles on our theme: TOOLS OF RECOVERY – plus Steps 7, 8 & 9. Dive in for Experience, Strength & Hope that we are sure will help many! Some noteworthy mentions Overeaters Anonymous Annual Appeal and the creativity used as a tool that we received this month!
Check out the following articles submitted by our members!
- I Use Creativity to Aid my Recovery
- Creativity in My Eyes by Andres Q
- Visiting the WSO office: A journey to the Heart of Service
- Concept 9- Ability
- Grief & Loss – using my tools
- The Tools I didn’t realize I was using
- Step 9: More Than Saying “I’m Sorry”
- Tradition 7; Practicing this Principle in ALL my Affairs
- Finding My Way in OA as a Newcomer
- Concept 8 – Delegation
- My favorite OA Tool is Service
Be Sure to check out our regular features!
- 2026 OA ANNUAL APPEAL
- What I heard at a Meeting Memes
- May the 14th Be With You! – Looking Fear in the Face
- Question of the Month
- Interview
- Not a Glum Spot
- Spotlight on Creative Reprieve
- Extra! Extra! Extra! Read All About It!-Tools of Recovery
- Trusted Servant Prayer
- Podcast Spotlight
- Foot Steps Forward: Board Shorts
- Limited Series on WSBC – Final wrap up
- The Seventh-Step Prayer
- Virtual Region News Corner
- OA Serenity Statement
- About ESH New Page!
- Meeting Flyer Hub
We also have a new selection of articles from other Newsletters around OA!
- Fun and Fast: The Tool of Writing
- Step 7, Humility – OA Reel
- My New Normal
- An Action Plan for Recovering from Surgery
- Service A Must
- A Promise that Came True
- I Dread the Human Element: (Telephone, Sponsorship, and Service), but I Do It Anyway to Keep My Recovery
- Tradition 7 – Responsibility – OA Reel
- The Joy of SERVICE
- Step 9 Making Amends – OA Reel
- An OA Crossword Puzzle
- Many Ways to Serve
- Different Ways of Finding Recovery
- Concept 7 Balance – OA Reel
A VIRTUAL REGION ANNUAL APPEAL SLIDE SHOW : Please play the Annual Appeal 3Xs at your meeting.
Past Editions
- July 2026 Quarterly Issue Theme: Tools of Recovery & Steps, Traditions and Concepts 7, 8, 9
- April 2026 Quarterly Theme: Higher Power & Steps, Traditions and Concepts 4, 5, 6
- January 2026 Quarterly Theme: Newcomers & Steps, Traditions and Concepts 1, 2, 3
- October 2025 Quarterly Theme: The Maintenance Steps 10, 11, 12
- July 2025 Quarterly Theme: Anorexia, Bulimia, Overeating & Steps, Traditions & Concepts 7, 8, 9
- April 2025 Quarterly Theme: Birthdays and Milestones & Step Four, Tradition Four & Concept Four
- October 2024 Quarterly Theme: Sponsorship & Step Ten, Tradition Ten & Concept Ten
- September 2024 Theme: Step Nine, Tradition Nine & Concept Nine
- August 2024 Monthly Theme: Step Eight, Tradition Eight & Concept Eight
- July 2024 Quarterly Theme: Self-Love
- January 2024 Quarterly Theme: New Year RE: Solutions!
- July 2023 Quarterly Theme: Diversity 2023
- April 2023 Anniversary Edition
- April 2020 Anniversary Edition
Be sure to get your pens ready to share your Experience, Strength and Hope on our next Edition when our theme will be “Prevention and Recovery from Relapse”, plus Steps, Traditions and Concepts 10, 11 and 12 & its Principles
©2026 Experience Strength & Hope Newsletter,
All rights reserved. Proudly sponsored by OA Foot Steps VIG #09670.
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