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First Willingness, Then Ability

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Posted on February 1, 2018

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The other day my sponsee was telling me how grateful she was to have me in her life. I had to agree—I was also grateful. Had I not been willing to be a backup for her sponsor then none of the following would have come to pass. This member, who was in her second pregnancy, needed to reach out by making phone calls to me twice a week. Eventually she asked me for some additional help, so I took a closed meeting to her home. I came to the meeting with a selected story from OA’s Abstinence book, plus I

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In OA, members have the freedom to create the lives they have dreamed of . . . . Nowhere else can people find this kind of training and support, especially not for the simple “fee” of passing it on and helping another member. — Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition Forewords and Appendices, p. 194, now available as a PDF download at oa.org/documents under “Literature.”

Joy does not depend on circumstances. It is a gift, an attitude change, always available to us through our Higher Power when we are willing to be grateful. — Taste of Lifeline, p. 176

Many of us have lost the ability to have fun while in our disease . . . . The Twelve Step Within Fun and Fellowship Subcommittee surveyed OA members from all over the world to discover the barriers to fun and fellowship and the solutions to overcome them — Fun and Fellowship, available at oa.org/documents under "Twelfth Step Within"

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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.
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