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If you’ve been curious about how Overeaters Anonymous (OA) Silicon Valley can support you by helping your patients, clients, congregation, staff, or student body who are struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, obesity, overeating, nighttime eating, excessive exercise, poor body image, or any number of other food issues and compulsive eating behaviors, then we would like to invite you to spend an hour with us online (connecting from the convenience of your home) from 7:00pm to 8:00pm (Pacific time) on one of the following dates:
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If you would like to reach a member of the Silicon Valley Intergroup, or connect with a Committee Chair/Coordinator, then please check out the list of contacts below. You may email anyone on the list.
To read what other professionals have to say about OA, please check out this free issue of the Courier, OA News and Information for the Professional Community.
If you’re interested in learning more about Overeaters Anonymous (OA) Silicon Valley, our Professional Outreach Coordinator would be happy to speak with you on an individual basis, or to make arrangements to deliver a special OA presentation to you and your organization (either online, or in-person, pandemic public health order permitting). This presentation, along with various pieces of OA literature, will be provided to you at no cost. We will work with you and your team to ensure a time and date that is appropriate, and we will adapt to any time frame and format that best serves your needs.
Typical presentations run about 20 minutes long – please allow up to 1 hour for an open (and informal) question and answer (Q&A) period. Based upon the individual needs of your organization, the presentation, along with all the materials presented, can be abbreviated or expanded. We are at your service.
By making information about OA and its Twelve Step program of recovery available to all with any interest, we seek to bring hope and recovery to those who are suffering with our disease. We have known the pain, anguish, and isolation of this disease so we want compulsive eaters everywhere to know there is a solution. Please help us pass along this message of hope.
To reach the Professional Outreach Coordinator, please send an email to pro-outreach@oasv.org.
Refer those you serve to one of our Newcomer Nights
Encourage anyone who struggles with compulsive eating to attend one of our 3 upcoming Newcomer Nights. For details, please click here!
Take a look at the OA 2017 Survey – Get to know our members!
The first Overeaters Anonymous meeting was held in 1960 in Los Angeles, California. Since that time, OA has grown to over 6,400 meetings in more than 80 countries with approximately 54,000 members.
Before coming to OA, 77% of members received some type of treatment or counseling, such as medical, psychological, or spiritual. Of those members, 30% said it played an important part in their coming to OA.
After coming to OA, 67% received some type of treatment or counseling, such as medical, psychological, or spiritual. Of those members, 88% said that support from OA has been helpful in conjunction with treatment or counseling. View the graphic below for the average weight loss as well as the years a healthy weight was maintained.
If you’d like to see the complete details from our 2017 membership survey, please click here!
We will meet online. All you will need is a mobile phone, tablet, or computer with internet access (we will send you the link, meeting ID, and passcode to attend this special online meeting, or, alternatively, we can provide you with a dial-in number and passcode for LAN-line access). The application we will be using (Zoom) will install itself at no cost to you, and will afford you the opportunity to meet some of us who have worked this amazing Twelve Step program of recovery and discovered freedom from the bondage of food obsession.
Because we are making this freely available to you via the internet, you need not leave the comfort of your own home. You may choose to keep your video off and merely “tune in” to listen, or you can be an active participant, asking questions and dialoguing with OA members in what promises to be an informative and educational evening, featuring a Twelve Step solution to the problem of compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors. Overeaters Anonymous has helped tens of thousands around the globe recover from a debilitating, progressive, and ultimately fatal disease: compulsive eating!
By meeting with us online, you are free to ask questions anonymously, typing your questions into the chat function. Or, alternatively, you may raise your virtual (or actual) hand and unmute yourself to pose any questions that you might have about OA and how this program – founded in Hollywood, California, in January of 1960 – can help the people with whom you are concerned, recover from the cunning, baffling, and powerful disease of compulsive eating.
If you think one of your patients, clients, a member of your faith community, organizational staff, or student body may be a compulsive eater, then please encourage them to attend one of our upcoming Newcomer Nights – held on the exact same dates – just 1 hour earlier. For further details, or to register, please click here!
You will be provided a brief introduction to the Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous and gain an understanding of our program of recovery from compulsive eating, and compulsive food behaviors. As our members will attest, this is a program of recovery that really works!
Over the course of this informational hour, you will meet a few of our OA members who have found a solution to their problems with food, together with a way of living that provides them with happiness, joy, and freedom.
In OA, we have no program of diets and exercise, no scales, no magic pills. What we do have to offer is far greater than any of these things – a fellowship in which we find and share the healing power of love. Our common bonds are two: the disease of compulsive eating from which we all have suffered, and the solution that we all are finding as we live by the Principles embodied in our Twelve Steps.
If you think one of your patients, clients, a member of your faith community, organizational staff, or student body may be a compulsive eater, then you owe it to yourself – and to them – to inform yourself about the OA program. We are here to help.
OA works alongside many like you, complementing your recommendations. What OA offers is an ongoing support system for members that encourages them to help one another – thereby weakening their isolation and loneliness. In OA, we have experienced that together we get better.
We claim no medical, nutritional, or psychological expertise. We recommend members contact qualified professionals for help in these areas. OA’s approach can enhance – not replace – existing treatment programs for those already under medical supervision.
But don’t take our word for it. Here are some stats to back up our claims.
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“But I’m too weak. I’ll never make it!” Don’t worry, we have all thought and said the same thing. The amazing secret to the success of this program is just that: weakness. It is weakness, not strength that binds us to each other and to a higher power and somehow gives us the ability to do what we cannot do alone. If you decide you are one of us, we welcome you with open arms. Whatever your circumstances, we offer you the gift of acceptance. You are not alone anymore
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In need of support, we are here to help.
Click here to chat with an OA Member
In need of support, we are here to help.
Click here to chat with an OA Member