“On Awakening” Daily Meditation

Follow the recorded script from the OA Foot Step’s Daily Meditation Meeting called “On Awakening.” Start with a fifteen-minute reading period, followed by the “On Awakening” reading from Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 86-88. Finish by meditating for ten minutes and journaling for fifteen minutes.

Now Hiring: A Big God

Jacki shares a writing exercise placing a help wanted ad for her personal Higher Power. In OA, we need a Power that is greater than our problem with food, and we get to choose for ourselves the nature of this Higher Power.

I Couldn’t Bypass My Emotional Recovery

Weight-loss surgery (actually 2 surgeries) was not a magic bullet for Anonymous who writes after having joined OA in the last few years. Not only did she gain weight in the process, but when she lost weight, she “struggled with the comments abut the weight I was losing and the flirty attention I was receiving.” With OA, she has found emotional recovery and a sensible plan of eating.

It Is Truly Never Too Late to Come Back to Overeaters Anonymous

Can you find recovery from compulsive eating later in life? Nancy from Texas USA came back in her mid 60s after 30 years of relapse with compulsive eating. “That first meeting when I returned to OA was a ‘God moment’ for me,” she says, “and I’ve had many more God moments since.”