Sponsor Alan shares different models of group support including Recovery Circles. The handout is available at: https://secularovereaters.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Workshop4_OARecoveryCircle.pdf

Sponsors Arlene and Allie share ways for sponsors to address food plans.

Sponsors Allie and Arlene share their different approaches.

We begin our Sponsor Workshop series of talks from 11/30/2020, as sponsor Vini T shares what sponsoring is like and how she sponsors. Then Vini and her sponsee, Sue, demonstrate how they worked on an issue together.

11.26.20: Bertha, compulsive eater, shares her experience, strength, and hope (and reservations!) on Thanksgiving.

November 26, 2020: Meghan, compulsive eater, shares her experience, strength, and hope (and reservations) on Thanksgiving. Strong language!

This episode features speaker Alan S from the Overeaters Anonymous 2020 Region 7 Convention special event. Originally recorded on 11/07/2020. Alan shares his OA story and practices. Insecure childhood, as well as his experiences in foster care, his relationship with sugar and how school saved him. He discovered OA at age 20, and was impressed by the authentic shares he heard in meetings. Alan decided to stay and slowly recovered over the years since.