Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity. ~ First Tradition, Overeaters Anonymous Our common welfare. Common: belonging to or shared by two –or more — people or groups. All of ours, an entity shared, not that […]
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Never Organized
9. OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve. ~ OA Tradition 9 We laughed at this last week, the never organized thing. We had the leader’s […]
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8. Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers. ~ 8th Tradition of OA I don’t have time to move the chairs, to pull out the books…and put them up. Let Sara do the […]
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What I do for a living is to reparent people. ~ Debbie Rowland We share the stories of our lives and currents crisscross them, themes, often of domineering parents, on insecure mothers raising insecure daughters, of perfectionist fathers demanding flawless progeny. […]
Continue reading »A Cross Country Run for a Sprinter
Loose ten pounds in a week, take off three inches by June, weigh in each week with a loss, shape up for the wedding/vacation/ reunion/party/next big event. We’re a group of sprinters ready and willing…sometimes able… to reach the goal […]
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