I am a compulsive overeater from Brazil, and I have so much gratitude for virtual meetings. I am alive because one night in 2010 someone wrote me that I could find online meetings every night here in Brazil. I weighed 253 pounds (115 kg) and had health problems with my lungs. All I wanted to do was sleep and eat. …

I started calling into an OA Steps and Traditions study meeting in April 2015, after I made a service commitment to find meeting moderators for that month. My region’s outreach committee started the meeting, and each intergroup within the region sponsors the meeting for a month at a time. I had never called into a phone meeting before and was …

I decided to try phone meetings and to commit to ninety meetings in ninety days after hearing an OA member speak about them. I will be forever grateful to her for sharing about them that day. As many of us do, I live in an area with limited access to face-to-face meetings. So my 90-in-90 began at a Sunday morning …

This Monday around 6:45 a.m., I dreamed that I was at an OA telephone meeting with more than one hundred other people. A delightful woman led the meeting that began with the Serenity Prayer. Then people volunteered to read from Twelve Step literature. After that, several people shared their experience, strength, and hope. This must have been a dream because …

Our meeting responded to a discussion question from an issue of Lifeline: “What would you say to a still-suffering compulsive overeater?” One day at a time, through the program and other recovering overeaters, our spirits begin to shine through the clouds of loneliness and isolation. Keep coming back. The miracle will happen for you too. There is hope. There is …

First of all, service is slimming! Giving service offers me opportunities to give back what was so freely given to me. I don’t have to pay my sponsor; I simply get to follow some really good orderly direction. These things are all service: making coffee; moving chairs; cleaning the rooms; giving rides; reading at meetings; sponsoring; serving as treasurer or …

As part of my OA service, I have the privilege of reviewing articles for upcoming issues of Lifeline. I just finished reading the February issue, and my heart is filled with gratitude this December morning. I enjoyed every one of the articles selected, but more than that, I personally know at least five of the contributors. I recognized either their …