The Tools of Recovery
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In working Overeaters Anonymous’ Twelve-Step program of recovery from compulsive overeating, we have found a number of tools to assist us. We use these tools regularly to help us achieve and maintain abstinence and recover from our disease. See our Tools of Recovery Pamphlet for more information.
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A Plan of Eating
A plan of eating helps us abstain from compulsive eating. (See the pamphlet Dignity of Choice.) This tool helps us deal with the physical aspects of our disease and achieve physical recovery.
A plan of eating helps us abstain from compulsive eating. (See the pamphlet Dignity of Choice.) This tool helps us deal with the physical aspects of our disease and achieve physical recovery.
Sponsorship
We ask a sponsor to help us through our program of recovery on all three levels, physical, emotional, and spiritual.
We ask a sponsor to help us through our program of recovery on all three levels, physical, emotional, and spiritual.
Meetings
Meetings give us an opportunity to identify our common problems, confirm our common solution through the Twelve Steps, and share the gifts we receive through this program. In addition to face-to-face meetings, OA offers telephone and online meetings.
Meetings give us an opportunity to identify our common problems, confirm our common solution through the Twelve Steps, and share the gifts we receive through this program. In addition to face-to-face meetings, OA offers telephone and online meetings.
Telephone
Many members call, text, or email their sponsors and other OA members daily. Telephone or electronic contact also provides an immediate outlet for those hard-to-handle highs and lows we may experience.
Many members call, text, or email their sponsors and other OA members daily. Telephone or electronic contact also provides an immediate outlet for those hard-to-handle highs and lows we may experience.
Writing
Putting our thoughts and feelings down on paper helps us to better understand our actions and reactions in a way that is often not revealed to us by simply thinking or talking about them.
Putting our thoughts and feelings down on paper helps us to better understand our actions and reactions in a way that is often not revealed to us by simply thinking or talking about them.
Literature
We read OA approved books, pamphlets, and Lifeline Magazine. Reading literature daily reinforces how to live the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.
We read OA approved books, pamphlets, and Lifeline Magazine. Reading literature daily reinforces how to live the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.
Action Plan
An action plan is the process of identifying and implementing attainable actions that are necessary to support our individual abstinence. Just like our plan of eating, it may vary widely among members and may need to be adjusted to bring structure, balance, and manageability into our lives.
An action plan is the process of identifying and implementing attainable actions that are necessary to support our individual abstinence. Just like our plan of eating, it may vary widely among members and may need to be adjusted to bring structure, balance, and manageability into our lives.
Anonymity
Anonymity guarantees we will place principles before personalities and assures us that only we have the right to make our membership known within our community. Anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, television and other public media of communication means that we never allow our faces or last names to be used once we identify ourselves as OA members. Within the Fellowship, anonymity means that whatever we share with another OA member will be held in respect and confidence. What we hear at meetings should remain there.
Anonymity guarantees we will place principles before personalities and assures us that only we have the right to make our membership known within our community. Anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, television and other public media of communication means that we never allow our faces or last names to be used once we identify ourselves as OA members. Within the Fellowship, anonymity means that whatever we share with another OA member will be held in respect and confidence. What we hear at meetings should remain there.
Service
Any form of service that helps reach a fellow sufferer adds to the quality of our own recovery. Members give service by being at meetings, volunteering to lead meetings, welcoming newcomers, and reaching out to others by phone, text or email. Beyond the group level, members serve as intergroup representatives, committee chairs, region representatives, and conference delegates.
Any form of service that helps reach a fellow sufferer adds to the quality of our own recovery. Members give service by being at meetings, volunteering to lead meetings, welcoming newcomers, and reaching out to others by phone, text or email. Beyond the group level, members serve as intergroup representatives, committee chairs, region representatives, and conference delegates.
