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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
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    • 12 Steps
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      • Step Four
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      • Step Six
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      • Step Eight
      • Step Nine
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      • Step Eleven
      • Step Twelve
    • 12 Traditions
      • Tradition One
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      • Tradition Three
      • Tradition Four
      • Tradition Five
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      • Tradition Eight
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    • 12 Concepts
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      • Concept Six
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  • RECOVERY
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  • TOOLS
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RECOVERY

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Celebrating You!

Celebrating OA Foot Steps 4 year Anniversary! OA Foot Steps is celebrating 4 years. It has helped thousands of Compulsive…

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An Interview: One of OA Foot Steps Founders

Q: What is your story with Compulsive Eating? A: I have always been a compulsive eater. When I was 1½…

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Spotlight on the Twelve Steps Within (TSW)

TSW is the Twelfth Steps Within committee. The goals of the committee are to provide services to members that will help…

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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…

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Upcoming Elections

I would like to talk on behalf of Traditions One and Two. Beginning in April of 1946, in the  Grapevine,…

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Slipping & Sliding – New Resolve!

I was introduced to OA in 1987 following outpatient therapy for binge eating, overeating, and bulimia, so I was already…

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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…

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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…

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Renewed Humility, New Peace

I am a returning member, back in OA after many relapses over the past fourteen years. Earlier this year, after…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Blessings

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality….

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Facing It, Feeling It

There it was. I had done the first three Steps with my sponsor and we both knew what was coming…

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