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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
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      • Step Five
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      • Step Eight
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    • 12 Traditions
      • Tradition One
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      • Tradition Four
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      • Tradition Ten
      • Tradition Eleven
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    • 12 Concepts
      • Concept One
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      • 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
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    • Asian Pacific Islander Desi
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    • Neuro-Diversity
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    • Men
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    • Recovery Around the World
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The Step Ten Connection

Action plans are boring aren’t they? They’re just another way of procrastinating. The best thing is to just get on…

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What Sponsoring has Meant to My Recovery

Being Sponsored In OA meetings where the Tools of Recovery are read I heard about the suggestion to get a…

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Realigned by a Few Tenths

There are problems faced by OA members who do not practice a dogma-based spirituality. These problems could be eliminated by…

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Sponsorship

I reach out my palm and you touch my heart.Together we make a valiant start.We guard against any halfway measureAs…

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Carry the Message – Through Sponsorship 

Felt the strength and support from having a sponsor? And ready to give back? Or maybe you’ve heard about having…

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A Sponsor’s Tool Box

OA Holiday Workshop: Sponsorship DayGetting a Newcomer Started & Other General Information for Sponsors Source: OA.orgLifeline: Stories of Recovery, 2016…

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Question of the Month

How does sponsorship specifically help your recovery? Sponsorship is essential to my recovery. I learned very early on in my…

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Spotlight on the Sponsorship WhatsApp group

Did you know that OA Foot Steps has a dedicated WhatsApp group for finding a sponsor or finding a sponsee?…

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Thought for Today

There is a special feeling for those of us in recovery when we discover that there are other people who…

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  • The Twelve Concepts of Service

Concept Nine

Concept Nine: Able, trusted servants, together with sound and appropriate methods of choosing them, are indispensable for effective functioning at…

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Obsessing to Get it Right

I was talking to my sponsors about my eagerness to move on to doing the steps and she suggested that…

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Step Eight Prayer

Higher Power of my own understanding,Infinite Radiance of All that IS,I seek your assistanceAs I count all thoseWhom I have…

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How To Sponsor An Atheist

One of the questions I’m asked by believers is how they should sponsor an atheist. The question is a little…

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Tradition 8: Labor of Love

I remember when I was new to OA. I sat with my first sponsor, going over my journaling on Step…

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