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I’ll Be Blunt: Perfection Is a Life-or-Death Issue for OA Members and the Fellowship

Do you sometimes feel dissatisfied with your meetings, available sponsors, or other aspect of program? What’s the solution? For Cate M. from California USA, the solution is to shift your perspective. “Our program works without us working it perfectly,” she explains.

If I Want to Keep What I’ve Been Given, I Must Reach Out to Others

Liz B. shares her journey sponsoring and being sponsored and the lesson that comes when sponsors or sponsees lose their abstinence. “I found my way back,” she describes, “thanks to someon who was ‘God with skin on.’”

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