Service Always Hope Our meeting responded to a discussion question from an issue of Lifeline: “What would you say to a still-suffering compulsiv…
Recovery Kindness and Wellness Attraction is hard to pinpoint. I didn’t really know what kept me coming back to OA in those early days, over four years ago…
Recovery Visible Attraction My first OA meeting was during the summer of 2012, following more than forty years of dieting, starving, bingeing, purging, …
Traditions Speaking Traditions The Tradition Ten article in the October 2015 Lifeline (“Learning Curve”, p. 19) provided me with some food for thought. The…
Service Service That Helps First of all, service is slimming! Giving service offers me opportunities to give back what was so freely given to me. I don…
Spirituality Want List Food tortured me from youth until I was 73 years old. It took me thirty years to make Step One. One day, three different Twe…
Newcomers Pleased to Believe I just attended my first and second ever OA meetings. In 2013, I lost 80 pounds (36 kg) in seven months using powdered food,…
Traditions Tradition 2: Seeing the Love Five or six years ago, I was involved in OA service work within my region. To aid my interactions with the personalities I e…
Steps Step 2: Loving Restoration When I heard Step Two read aloud at meetings, it used to bother me. “Restored to sanity?” I thought disbelievingly. “I can’t…
OA Responsibility Pledge That Certain Sense Always to extend the hand and heart of OA to all who share my compulsion; for this I am responsible. Feeling responsible ass…
How OA Changed My Life Recovery True Freedom When a fellow OA member suggested I reflect on what true freedom looks like for me, I discovered I could probably write a book. Before OA, I truly felt I already had it in the form of a solid career, … Read More
Higher Power Spirituality Stepping-Stones, Nuggets, and Gems Spirituality is the solution to our problem of powerlessness, and we find this solution in the Twelve Step program of recovery. I’ve experienced three stepping-stones in this process: Amen, Amends, Am… Read More
The Road Narrows My twenty-ninth birthday in OA is approaching, and it is cause for renewed reflection about my program. I spoke to my sponsor a week ago and mentioned to her that I was thinking of not taking a candle this year. Other OA members on their birthdays pitch about life changes: weddings, kids, jobs, financial gain, or acquisition of cars. I … Read More
Share It: Powerful Shares, Joyful Reading, Pages and Prayers Powerful Shares I wanted to share how sad I am to hear about the discontinuation of Lifeline. It has literally been a lifeline to me. I am one of the ones who answered your 2018 subscription appeal, and I recently renewed my subscription and will cherish every last issue. Thank you for the articles about “The Joys of Retreats and … Read More
Recovery Beyond Measure In a few days, I will celebrate thirty-eight years of recovery in OA. Today my goal is health, sanity, and wellness, not a size 8. Physically, my body has been a normal size for many years. G-d has removed the compulsion for what I call “the hard stuff”—the stuff you see at the grocery checkout counter. I have reached a … Read More