Rule 62: Don’t Take the Cash Too Seriously
We were young, we were abstinent, and we were driving home from a meeting inSteve’s little sports car. It had…
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My Recovery Miracle
When I was in my disease and eating compulsively, I was preoccupied with food. Iwas obsessed with diets and my…
Upcoming Elections
I would like to talk on behalf of Traditions One and Two. Beginning in April of 1946, in the Grapevine,…
Slipping & Sliding – New Resolve!
I was introduced to OA in 1987 following outpatient therapy for binge eating, overeating, and bulimia, so I was already…
Your Newsletter Wants To Hear From You!
This newsletter will always be YOUR newsletter. But it is MOST your newsletter when itscontributions come from you, the members…
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…
Mindful Eating Q&A
Do you have a well-defined food plan? I do. Who helped you define your food plan? We had a suggested…
Happy MOO Year
Or, nature’s version of the “I put my hand in yours” prayer:My friend is a dairy farmer. She helped a…
The Courage to Change the Things I can
Every time we met, my sponsor insisted that we begin and end with the Serenity Prayer. After one of our…
Soul’s Journey
There is a journey,A sad taleNot many dare know,Of heartache,The suicide of a soul. Forgotten, toss aside,Abandoned,Frightened and alone,Felt only…
Facing It, Feeling It
There it was. I had done the first three Steps with my sponsor and we both knew what was coming…
Agnostic in the Lifeboat
The first thing I ever identified with in the Big Book was the chapter “We Agnostics” (Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed.,…