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’ve been in OA for well over fifteen years now. It wasn’t until my thirteenth year in this wonderful program that I was able to be abstinent. It took me this long, simply because I had given myself definitions and forms of abstinence that I could not reach. For the longest time, I would not … Continued
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.”
What does it feel like to be willing? It might feel so good that you can’t help but pray “make it stay forever . . . just for today.”
Mary was very excited about her trip to Italy, but she had also became very anxious about it’s world-famous food culture, a prime attraction for tourists. How to manage this? She found simple and powerful answers from her sponsor and OA-approved literature. Her sponsor’s reminder? “I’m pretty sure God is in Italy.”
“Before OA, I had tried every diet, every exercise, every new ‘thing’ to lose weight. What I hadn’t tried was fixing myself from the inside out.” Join Agnes, a compulsive overeater, as she shares how OA helped her find a workable plan for freedom from her food behaviors.
Every single time Denise B. from California USA tried to leave the OA program, her binge eating and excess weight returned. Read as she shares years’ worth of experience, strength, and hope on a journey that has ultimately has led her to absitinence and recovery.
The Covid pandemic has had a particular and lasting effect on OA: the rise of online and hybrid meetings. As we negotiates the merits of returning to face-to-face meetings, K.S. from California USA uses this moment to call attention to the subtle prejudices in our Fellowship that denigrate OA members with compromised bodily health.
What does it mean to live life in between mealtimes? Follow the story of this anonymous OA member who describes her day and how even small, mundane activities can reflect back to you your own state of recovery.
“Through service in OA, my issue of not trusting people has come up for healing,” says Barb K. of Indiana USA. Over the years, Barb has learned in OA how to negotiate speaking up when she needs to speak up and trusting in OA unity when other OA members see things differently, and this shows just how valuable service can be to our recovery.
Michele from Texas USA shares her response to the question “How can I practice love and tolerance toward someone who disturbs me?” from the For Today Workbook, p. 83. “Today, I truly prefer to take the high road,” she says.