Step 8: Connection Bridge
Step Eight: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and become willing to make amends to them all….
The Twelve Steps of OA
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Step 8: Body Talk
After being abstinent for a few years and keeping off 75 pounds (34 kg), I have a special Eighth Step…
12 Stepping a Problem: Self-Love
Today was a tough day. In fact it’s been a tough couple of weeks working in a climate of animosity…
The Beautiful Dandelion
A weed… “a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, growing where it conflicts with human preferences, needs, or goals.“…
A New Member Shares…
“Who would have thought, when I entered my first OA meeting six months ago, that my life was going to…
We Relax and Take It Easy.
We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. —AA Big Book p. 86
We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves in Step 4
We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves in Step 4
Love & Acceptance are a Journey…
“One of the most wonderful gifts I have received in this program is accepting and even loving myself. This new…
May the 14th Be With You!
“By setting down our grievances in black and white, we set a boundary around them.” – 12 & 12 of…
Outreach Around The World
When I first joined OA in 1996 we gathered at the “Lemon Squeezer” church in Victory Park, Johannesburg. It smelled…
My Recovery Miracle
When I was in my disease and eating compulsively, I was preoccupied with food. Iwas obsessed with diets and my…
New Options
Before I found OA, food was my answer to everything and anything. If I had a problem, I would eat….
Power and Powerlessness
My sponsor asked me to write on these two questions: Jessica K. Source: oceanandbay.org
New Year’s Solution
We recover together or not at all. This is the “we” in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.OA is not…
Renewed Humility, New Peace
I am a returning member, back in OA after many relapses over the past fourteen years. Earlier this year, after…