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Experience, Strength & Hope Newsletter – OA Foot Steps Virtual Intergroup #09670 Experience, Strength & Hope Newsletter OA Foot Steps Virtual Intergroup #09670 Menu Home SUBMISSIONS ABOUT OA OA Foot Steps VIG What’s New Upcoming Events Special Topic 12 Steps Step One Step Two Step Three Step Four Step Five Step Six Step Seven Step Eight Step Nine Step Ten Step Eleven Step Twelve 12 Traditions Tradition One Tradition Two Tradition Three Tradition Four Tradition Five Tradition Six Tradition Seven Tradition Eight Tradition Nine Tradition Ten Tradition Eleven Tradition Twelve 12 Concepts Concept One Concept Two Concept Three Concept Four Concept Five Concept Six Concept Seven Concept Eight Concept Nine Concept Ten Concept Eleven Concept Twelve ABSTINENCE First 30 Days 90/90 Daily Reprieve Willingness DIVERSITY 100-Pounder Anorexia & Bulimia Bariatric Surgery Compulsive Overeating Asian Pacific Islander Desi Black, Indigenous & People of Colour Neuro-Diversity Health Issues LGBTQ+ Young People Men Women Recovery Around the World HP 2 Way Prayer Atheists & Agnostics Freethinkers Higher Power Spiritual Program NEWCOMERS Welcome Home How it Works Our Invitation to You RECOVERY Working the Program Fellowship Relationships Recovery Stories Relapse Keep Coming Back TOOLS A Plan of Eating Action Plan Anonymity Literature Meetings Service Sponsorship Telephone Writing Search for: Headlines Your Newsletter Wants To Hear From You! 1 year ago 1 year ago A Note from the Publisher 10 months ago 10 months ago Outreach Around The World 10 months ago 10 months ago The more trust I gain, the more I believe I am just as good as anybody else. 10 months ago 10 months ago Revovery in OA Gives Me Life 10 months ago 10 months ago Neurodiverse and Working My Steps 10 months ago 10 months ago I’m Still an Agnostic and I Still Keep Coming Back 10 months ago 10 months ago Welcome Home 10 months ago 10 months ago A Note from the Publisher This edition of our newsletter is focused on diversity. Diversity in all senses of the… Compulsive Overeating DIVERSITY 10 months ago 10 months ago Outreach Around The World When I first joined OA in 1996 we gathered at the Lemon Squeezer” church in… DIVERSITY Meetings 10 months ago 10 months ago The more trust I gain, the more I believe I am just as good as anybody else. I feel grateful that early through the OA doors I was told about OA Foot… Fellowship HP 10 months ago 10 months ago Revovery in OA Gives Me Life -Jackie S ABOUT OA Compulsive Overeating An Interview: One of OA Foot Steps Founders Welcome Home Question of the Day Welcome Home A Note from the Publisher Atheists & Agnostics DIVERSITY Question of the Day Fellowship Service Welcome Home What’s New Writing Your Newsletter Wants To Hear From You! admin 1 year ago 1 year ago 0 1 mins This newsletter will always be YOUR newsletter. But it is MOST your newsletter when itscontributions come from you, the members of OA Foot Steps Virtual Intergroup. It doesn’t have to be a long, detailed article (though it certainly can be up to 500 words). Here are some ideas: It can be done anonymously or be… Read More Welcome Home A Note from the Publisher admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 2 mins This edition of our newsletter is focused on diversity. Diversity in all senses of the word. The best definition I found and added to was – Diversity is the range of human differences, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, social class, physical or mental ability or attributes, religious… Read More Compulsive Overeating DIVERSITY Fellowship Meetings RECOVERY Recovery Around the World Relationships Telephone The Twelve Steps of OA TOOLS Welcome Home Working the Program Outreach Around The World admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 7 mins When I first joined OA in 1996 we gathered at the Lemon Squeezer” church in Victory Park, Johannesburg. It smelled of highveld dust and floor polish. At 30, I seemed to be the youngest in the room filled with middle-class white women who looked like my elderly relatives. Just two years into South Africa’s democracy… Read More DIVERSITY Meetings Neuro-Diversity TOOLS Welcome Home The more trust I gain, the more I believe I am just as good as anybody else. admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 4 mins I feel grateful that early through the OA doors I was told about OA Foot Steps. Until then, I went to numerous meetings, but felt like I had an added layer to my disease that ‘regular’ people didn’t understand. I have bipolar and anxiety. While people may only be trying to be helpful in saying… Read More Fellowship HP Recovery Around the World TOOLS Welcome Home Writing Revovery in OA Gives Me Life admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 1 mins -Jackie S Read More DIVERSITY Fellowship Higher Power How it Works HP Neuro-Diversity RECOVERY Service Spiritual Program Sponsorship Welcome Home Working the Program Neurodiverse and Working My Steps admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 8 mins I came into the program about 2 years ago. I knew about OA as I had been in another 12 step fellowship for over 40 years. I had been to my doctor for the millionth time, and she asked me when are you going to stop this overeating cause you are going to die. This… Read More ABOUT OA Atheists & Agnostics DIVERSITY Higher Power Keep Coming Back TOOLS Welcome Home I’m Still an Agnostic and I Still Keep Coming Back admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 6 mins As a longtime agnostic, I had a lot of hesitation as I walked into a church basement to attend my first OA meeting. My doubts quickly multiplied when I heard them read the Twelve Steps. I was distressed by the references to God, especially to a male God to whom I was supposed to turn over… Read More Anorexia & Bulimia Atheists & Agnostics DIVERSITY Freethinkers Higher Power Neuro-Diversity Welcome Home Bulimic, Restrictor, Agnostic Freethinker living with BPD admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 3 mins Hi. I’m Claire, compulsive overeater (COE), bulimic, restrictor, agnostic freethinker and living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) (-emotionally unstable personality disorder). ~~When I first came to program I did feel different and marginalized. I was reluctant to disclose my beliefs and neurodiversity due to fear of judgement that I had so often experienced – I… Read More 2 Way Prayer Atheists & Agnostics DIVERSITY Higher Power LGBTQ+ Neuro-Diversity OA Foot Steps VIG Service Spiritual Program The Twelve Concepts of Service Welcome Home What’s New Working the Program Interview with Monica S – Let’s talk about Diversity. admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 15 mins Monica is the Chair of the PIPO committee of OA Foot Steps, the Co-Chair of Unity with Diversity at World Services, and a WSBC delegate. Q: What Is the Goal and aspirations of the PIPO unity with Diversity? A: The mission is to attract & draw in, compulsive eaters to OA, and to attract people… Read More Atheists & Agnostics DIVERSITY Freethinkers Neuro-Diversity Recovery Around the World Spiritual Program Welcome Home Question of the Day admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 2 mins How do you find support with mental health disorders or neurodiversity (bipolar, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, ADHD, sensory processing disorders, depression, etc…)? How and when have you disclosed your disorder to fellows in OA., and/or how and when have you disclosed that you are a member of OA in a mental health groups? How does it… Read More Telephone TOOLS Welcome Home Working the Program Spotlight on the OA Outreach groups admin 10 months ago 10 months ago 0 5 mins When I started the first outreach group in OA, it was confusing for people. I had put together guidelines to keep the chat safe, and there was resistance. The time keeping guidelines, and the no posting other than outreach requests in the chat, were not necessarily understood. People didn’t really know how to use it… Read More 1 2 3 … 5 Search for: Is OA Right For You? Click on this image...