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Posted on January 1, 2018

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I just celebrated my sixth OA birthday and took time to reflect upon what I have learned. I am sending this to Lifeline per my sponsor’s direction. My recovery has taught me: I am a woman in recovery. I am no longer a victim. There are no mistakes. Everyone I meet is here to show me something if I am willing to look. Everything that happened was supposed to happen (because it did). Recovery is something I have to work at every day. Meditation can turn a mountain back into a molehill. Abstinence is my greatest gift, and I never

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Bits & Bites

We can confidently face any situation life brings because we no longer have to face it alone. We have what we need any time we are willing to let go of self-will and humbly ask for help. — The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition (p. 23)

Sharing experience is worth the effort if it helps another person connect. Your share might be the one.— V.H., Traverse City, Michigan USA

Lifeline was first published in October 1965. Circulation climbed to 4,747 by January 1978, when monthly publication began. One year later, circulation nearly tripled to 11,660 and reached a high of 25,116 in June 1990. Today, Lifeline has 5,851 print and online subscribers worldwide:

The sweetness you are looking for in life doesn’t come from food. – OA Slogan

Because you cannot think your way into right acting, Act your way into right thinking. — OA SLOGAN

The Serenity Prayer in Polish Boże, użycz mi pogody ducha, abym godził się z tym, czego nie mogę zmienić, odwagi, abym zmieniał to, co mogę zmienić, i mądrości, abym odróżnił jedno od drugiego.— From the Polish translation of the Twelve-Stepping a Problem Wallet Card

Professional Outreach resources at oa.org/documents:
• Professional Community Courier Newsletter
• CompulsiveOvereating—An Inside View
• Introducing OA to Health Care Professionals
• Introducing OA to the Clergy
• Is Food a Problem for You?
• Membership Survey Report
• OA Press Kit
• Professional Outreach Manual: Appendices • Wanda Know Skit
• What to Remember when you see your Doctor or HealthCare Professional Wallet Card

COURTESY May I do unto others as I would have them do to me. Can I hold my tongue when I must speak, so right words come to be? Will Thy will be done in all I feel, when emotions get set free? Let acceptance come. Thy will be done, giving Hope and Serenity. — Dorene, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota USA

WRONG NUMBER Trigger foods are calling—the drugs of my disease. If only they’d hear that my message is clear: forward those calls to HP! — C.S., Oak Park, Illinois USA

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downloadable recovery workshops and skits at oa.org/documents

About Us

Overeaters Anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength, and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. There are no dues or fees for members; we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology, or religious doctrine; we take no position on outside issues. Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors and to carry the message of recovery through the Twelve Steps of OA to those who still suffer.

History of Lifeline

   OA issued its first national publication, the OA Bulletin, in August 1963. Most of its twenty-four typed pages reported on OA’s second annual Conference.
   At that Conference, the Board of Trustees created the OA Bulletin as a bimonthly publication in which members could share stories of individual recovery and receive reports on board and Conference actions. Each of the forty-eight OA groups in existence at that time received two free copies of the first issue.
   The premier issue of OA Lifeline appeared in October 1965. Except for its reduced size of sixteen pages, it resembled its predecessor in format and appearance. The issue focused on food and weight, and subsequent early issues even included a page of recipes called “What’s Cookin’.” According to a tally on page seven of the first issue, OA then had eighty-nine groups. The early issues make no mention of circulation.
   In 1966, Lifeline began printing the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in each issue. Circulation climbed to 4,747 by January 1978, when Lifeline began monthly publication. One year later, that number nearly tripled to 11,660. Circulation reached a high of 25,116 in June 1990. Since then, subscription rate increases and declining OA membership have dramatically decreased the magazine’s circulation.
   In today’s information age, Lifeline online (oalifeline.org) brings the magazine into some subscribers’ homes by computer and mobile devices. This instant communication via the World Wide Web offers new hope for wider circulation of both the magazine and OA’s message of recovery.
   For copies of back issues of Lifeline, go to the OA bookstore (bookstore.oa.org) and select “Lifeline” from the drop-down menu.

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