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Experience, Strength & Hope Newsletter

Experience, Strength & Hope Newsletter

Sponsored by OA Foot Steps Virtual Intergroup #09670

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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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Heavy Phones

JUST PICK IT UP! Who knew that a cell phone could feel like it weighs 1,000 lbs? Well, that’s what…

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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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New Options

Before I found OA, food was my answer to everything and anything. If I had a problem, I would eat….

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Richer, Saner & New!

I just finished my first year in OA, and it has been amazing. I am convinced it was GOD, the…

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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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Power and Powerlessness

My sponsor asked me to write on these two questions: Jessica K. Source: oceanandbay.org

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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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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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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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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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