Speed Dating for Sponsors
What happens when you apply a “speed dating” format to match up OA sponsors with sponsees? Only good things, as Christine from New Zealand describes from her experience at an OA retreat.
Sponsorship
I Used To Weigh Over 430 Pounds (195 kg). I Would Not Be Alive Right Now if Not for My Overeaters Anonymous Sponsor
Chris B. reflects on the personal challenges that come with sponsorship and just how essential sponsorship is to recovery. “Consider my hand forever raised for being available to sponsor,” says Chris.
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.’”
One of Many Miracles Is That I Said Yes to Being a Sponsor
“Me, a sponsor?” says Karen from Australia, ”That’s something I thought would never happen.” But it did. And as long as Karen works all aspects of the program, life is getting easier and OA is truly delivering on the promises of the program.