Last month I returned to a city across the country. While listening to the overture backstage, I waited for the symphony to begin. I watched the fluid movements of my colleagues perform the delicate and different movements onstage. Their lifetime of attention, discipline and service was enabling sublime music-making that lifted my soul. I exhaled with relief. I recalled being …
Celebrating OA Foot Steps 4 year Anniversary! OA Foot Steps is celebrating 4 years. It has helped thousands of Compulsive Eaters and in turn has been supported by thousands of members. Our community is unique and yet we all share a common goal: To help the still suffering compulsive eater. Today, we celebrate You and our Fellowship. Happy Birthday OA …
Q: What is your story with Compulsive Eating? A: I have always been a compulsive eater. When I was 1.5 years old, my mom put these sweets, baked by my aunt, in front of me to keep me quiet while she was cutting my hair. Next thing you know, I was drunk as a skunk as these were Rum balls. …
TSW is the Twelfth Steps Within committee. The goals of the committee are to provide services to members that will help keep them from relapse, and also help them if they do come back after relapse. The committee will be doing at least one workshop each quarter. TSW also hosts 15 week Step Studies. We are in the process of organizing two …
I would like to talk on behalf of Traditions One and Two. Beginning in April of 1946, in the Grapevine, Bill Wilson began to expound on what he called “The Twelve Points to Assure our Future’’. These became known as the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, and eventually, our own adopted Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous. The First Tradition states “Our …
I was introduced to OA in 1987 following outpatient therapy for binge eating, overeating, and bulimia, so I was already armed with a food plan and an understanding of the First Step when I “jumpstarted” into the program. The miracle of abstinence led to a new spiritual life, and OA saved me from the insanity of my disease. I was …
We recover together or not at all. This is the “we” in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.OA is not an “I” program. I tried the “I” program. It was all I knew; wasn’t I supposed to apply mywill to problems and overcome them? But my food issues were impervious to my efforts. I wasstuck. And I stayed stuck until …
Do you have a well-defined food plan? I do. Who helped you define your food plan? We had a suggested food plan in those days (1978)called Blue Sheet (it was on blue paper). I found balance in that plan and a guide to follow forthis defiant compulsive overeater. As time passed the amounts changed slightly and I found thisplan became …
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”― Lao Tzu It’s all in the approach. I have traveled through most of my life expecting things to go a certain way. My way. And there was nothing more infuriating …
