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Experience, Strength & Hope Newsletter

Experience, Strength & Hope Newsletter

Sponsored by OA Foot Steps Virtual Intergroup #09670

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  • ABOUT OA
    • OA Foot Steps VIG
    • What’s New
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    • 12 Steps
      • Step One
      • Step Two
      • Step Three
      • Step Four
      • Step Five
      • Step Six
      • Step Seven
      • Step Eight
      • Step Nine
      • Step Ten
      • Step Eleven
      • Step Twelve
    • 12 Traditions
      • Tradition One
      • Tradition Two
      • Tradition Three
      • Tradition Four
      • Tradition Five
      • Tradition Six
      • Tradition Seven
      • Tradition Eight
      • Tradition Nine
      • Tradition Ten
      • Tradition Eleven
      • Tradition Twelve
    • 12 Concepts
      • Concept One
      • Concept Two
      • Concept Three
      • Concept Four
      • Concept Five
      • Concept Six
      • Concept Seven
      • Concept Eight
      • Concept Nine
      • Concept Ten
      • Concept Eleven
      • Concept Twelve
  • RECOVERY
    • Newcomers
    • Abstinence
    • First 30 Days
    • 90/90
    • Daily Reprieve
    • Willingness
    • Working the Program
    • Fellowship
    • Relationships
    • Recovery Stories
    • Relapse
    • Keep Coming Back
  • TOOLS
    • A Plan of Eating
    • Action Plan
    • Anonymity
    • Literature
    • Meetings
    • Service
    • Sponsorship
    • Telephone
    • Writing
  • Higher Power
    • Prayers & Blessings
    • Atheists & Agnostics
    • Freethinkers
    • Higher Power
    • Spiritual Program
  • DIVERSITY
    • 100-Pounder
    • Anorexia & Bulimia
    • Bariatric Surgery
    • Compulsive Overeating
    • Asian Pacific Islander Desi
    • Black, Indigenous & People of Colour
    • Neuro-Diversity
    • Health Issues
    • LGBTQ+
    • Young People
    • Men
    • Women
    • Recovery Around the World
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Welcome Home

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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…

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Interview with Joni B. – A Journey of Recovery and Service

Joni discusses her long journey with compulsive eating and her path to recovery through various programs. She recounts her struggles with dieting,…

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Spotlight on the Digital Committee

If you’ve ever found your way to a meeting through the website or sent a message through the Contact Us…

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Prayer of St Francis of Assisi

Prayer for Peace and often associated with Step 11: Many members and sponsors suggest using the Prayer of St. Francis…

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Foot Steps Forward : Board Shorts

Here are the Board Shorts, updates from the Board, in case you missed them at the Intergroup business meeting! This…

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Step 10, One Day at a Time

I thank my higher power every day for my daily 10th-Step practice. Even when I am not abstinent, the structure…

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Rosi’s Prayer by Rosi

Dear Father, Please forgive me for harboring an ungrateful heart filled with fear. Please replace it with a grateful heart…

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Life Transformed

OA not only changed my life but this recovery program also gave me a life worth living. Before I became…

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  • HP
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  • Special Topic
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Step 11: Learning to Listen

My first Step sponsor told me I could begin to practice Step Eleven early in my OA program. I did…

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  • The Twelve Steps of OA
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Personalizing My Footwork

I’ve been in OA for forty-two years and have worked my program in all sorts of ways. For a time,…

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Step 10: Dirty Laundry

I was in the launderette flicking through one of their magazines when I saw something I quite liked. “This is…

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Abstinence Prayer By Lynm

ABSTINENCE PRAYERGod, today is a new day for me and with You it can be a day ofabstinence; with You…

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Step 8: Focus on the Journey

Making an amends list starts the process of forgiveness. It opens doorways in one’s heart to see their faults as…

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Taking Responsibility: Breaking Free from Victimhood

Inspired by the principle in Tradition 7 For much of my life, I lived in a cycle of self-pity and…

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The Dark Side of My Disease

One illness, two faces: Compulsive Overeating and Restriction I am a compulsive eater. Most people know me as an overeater,…

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Obsession

I have an allergy of craving and a mental twist; the both together makes me a true addict. It doesn’t…

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