Flight and hotel prices are still reasonable, and your OA friends can’t wait to see you! Join us in Orlando—it’s this month! August 21–23—for World Service Convention. We welcome you—newcomers too! Learn more
I found a sponsor and began working the Steps again, this time giving special attention to the character defects of pride and anger. I came back to OA in my mid 60s after a 30-year relapse with compulsive eating. Who would have thought that someone could start this recovery journey as a senior citizen?! I … Continued
“The Fifth Step: what a daunting Step it was for me as a newcomer,” says Anonymous. “But I can remember the feeling when I was done . . . I was relieved.”
Stephanie, a compulsive overeating, and Nancy, a gratefully recovering compulsive overeater, host this workshop on OA’s Fifth Step: “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”
A sponsee overflows with gratitude to her sponsor. Read this wonderful poem by Catherine W. from Minnesota USA. “Finally,” she says, ”I am not alone with my fear and grief.”