Question of the Month
As a Newcomer, what made you realize you were a compulsive eater and prompted you to attend an OA Meeting?…
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Listen In: Voices of Recovery – Podcast Spotlight
Each issue, we’ll highlight one or two podcasts that reflects the theme of our current ESH publication. This quarter’s featured…
May the 14th be With You! -Jan 2026
“Perhaps we didn’t believe that our compulsive eating was a spiritual problem, or we felt God was concerned only with…
Virtual Region News Corner
Virtual Region Convention Over 70 sessions with Zoom translated Captions available in 36 languages. FEBRUARY 20 – 22, 2026 Virtual Region Needs You…
Limited Series on WSBC
Coming up in April, is OA’s World Service Business Conference (WSBC) and applications for fellows to attend as representatives of…
Embracing our Differences – OA Reel
💞 In OA, members have discovered recovery through the consistent use of the Twelve Steps supported by many forms of…
Step 2 of OA – OA Reel
Step 2 in Overeaters Anonymous states: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”…
Thirty Days!
I’ve reached my twenty-ninth day of abstinence. Tomorrow will be my weighing day and my highly anticipated thirtieth day. I’ve…
“I’m Perfectly Sane. I Just Have an Eating Problem”: My Journey to Step Two in Overeaters Anonymous
Step Two: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” Spiritual Principle: Hope The…
Thoughts of Tradition One
When we first became Overeater Anonymous members, little did we think about the inner workings of the program. We did…
Tools of Recovery
To celebrate, here are 29 tools of recovery in addition to our nine OA tools: a plan of eating, sponsorship,…
The Beauty of Tradition One
In January, I read Tradition One. I was reminded that whether at a local meeting, an Intergroup meeting, a Regional…
OA Reflects No Diet
OA is known for being a food program not a diet program. What does this mean? Why is the mentality…
Tradition Two Finds Justice
Are you getting fatter and fatter? Do you read diet books, follow nutritional resources, come to OA meetings and still…
There is Life After Catatonia
When we are constantly put down mentally, physically, and spiritually by the ones who are supposed to love us, it…