Come celebrate our freedom from food addiction. Together we can do what we could never do alone!! Let’s explore how we got to freedom, what we have tried that hasn’t worked as well, what we maybe know we need to try but are simply not willing to do, yet.

Get on your hiking gear and pack your Tools! Join an adventure through the 12 Steps as we uncover and discover what’s lying just beneath the surface of our food addiction and other compulsive behaviours. Have your AA 12/12 handy, as well as your favourite pen and notebook, and of course, an open mind for a new experience. This is an interactive workshop that will address how to apply the Steps in every situation, as well as personal stories of the transformative powers inherent within them.

Step 1 tells us that we are powerless and that only an act of providence, a miracle, will relieve us of the merciless obsession. The rest of the steps are all about seeking a miracle. We must form a relationship with our Higher Power. This meeting will be all about how we can build up our reserve of faith and grow spiritually.  Bring your big book and your 12 and 12!

Led by a veteran Overeaters Anonymous workshop leader who was a chronic slipper herself for a dozen years before getting abstinent 20 years ago, our event is a Big Book workshop for Chronic Slippers — both those who are slipping themselves AND those who want to be of service to those of us who have slipped for years and are still struggling to get abstinent.  Of necessity, we will be having a glorious conversation about love and forgiveness since people who struggle to get abstinent are usually struggling to forgive someone or something.  Join us for all or part of our daylong workshop, and bring your Big Books!

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Initially beginning a disciplined relationship with our primary love object, our food, seems similar to starting any other diet. Later as the body and mind clear and we grow along spiritual lines, we learn about mindful eating, portion control, and leaning into longing as well as joy. Then we are moving toward establishing a more moderate relationship with food and life becomes more balanced and food plans become more moderate.  Do you agree or disagree?  Want to learn more about this from longtime members? Join them to discuss and develop organic and sensual experiences to continue living a recovery-centred life with less fear and more joy.

Come celebrate our freedom from food addiction. Together we can do what we could never do alone!! Let’s explore how we got to freedom, what we have tried that hasn’t worked as well, what we maybe know we need to try but are simply not willing to do, yet.

Access files mentioned in this meeting here.

At many OA meetings, a lot of members hear ’the 9th step promises’ read before the close.

What a lot us don’t realize is, that there are a whole bunch of ‘Promises’ peppered all thru the 1st 164 pages of the Book from “Bill’s Story” to “A Vision for You”! 

Join us as we find them & talk about where they are. The Amount of hope in these ‘Promises’ thru out the B.B. is absolutely amazing. Guaranteed!

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We release the past so that we are free in this moment for all that is possible now…. We are a sponsor and sponsee, both OA long-timers, who have found incredible peace through forgiveness and working the 12 Steps of Overeaters Anonymous.

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My eating disorder began at a very young age. I started eating to survive the day and once I started I found that I couldn’t stop. I’ve been coming and going to program since the 80s and couldn’t find recovery until 2005. My motivation to return to this last time was ONLY to avoid the need to purchase a wheelchair to provide myself with mobility. I’m still a compulsive overeater but today I can walk and talk and breathe all at the same time!

I have been a grateful member of OA since June of 2007.  I learned very quickly that I must surrender to a power greater than myself if I wanted to be relieved of my binging and purging.  My ways of controlling and relieving the control with day-long binges were caught in a Groundhog Day cycle from a very young age day in and day out.  OA~ felt like a free fall at times, but it was so often cushioned by the love, compassion, and support of fellows who had walked before me.  I was given the gift of desperation and with that the gift of abstinence.  That said, my life has had many challenges and grief for which I have been so grateful that I had could utilize the steps and the tools of the OA program, as well as the rich community of lifelong fellows.  I am delighted to have the opportunity to share about how surrendering just one day at a time has strung together 13 1/2 years of abstinence from bulimia.  I had tried everything before I tried this as a solution.  Little did I know that OA had so much more to offer me than relief from my obsessions and compulsions.  Today I experience the beautiful Promises of this program and a life beyond my wildest dreams.  Hang in there.  There is always hope.  No matter what.