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Achieving Fit Spiritual Condition

OA’s 12 step program of recovery from compulsive eating promises members “a life beyond our wildest dreams.” While that promise appears in various forms in our literature, the expression “fit spiritual condition,” comes at the end of the 10th Read more

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Serenity at the Beach

OA Beach Retreat

I came into OA in February 1989. I stayed for twenty-one years through periods of abstinence and relapse, my wedding, jobs, having children, and the death of my father. I shared my problems and my willingness to work on Read more

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Abstinent Holidays

surviving the holidays with a eating disorder.

“Once we become abstinent, the preoccupation with food diminishes and in many cases leaves us entirely.” — Our Invitation To You.

Before I came into OA, my disease didn’t know the difference between a holiday and a regular day. Read more

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