Over the past few months, I have been praying to God to guide me with my compulsive overeating when I eat supper. I have gotten stressed out these past few months and have taken larger portions every supper. I could make it to supper and then I resorted to old habits and used the food [...]

"My drinking career was short and destructive, and my alcoholic progression was very fast. I got drunk for the first time in October. By November people were willing to wager that I could not go one week without a drink. (I won and, in celebration, drank myself sick.) By January I was a daily drunk [...]

Yesterday at my OA meeting, we read and shared on step 3 of the AABB. God knew I needed to see and hear those words on those pages because I was busy running the show and failing miserably. I have not been feeling very well the past several days. I called my doctor's office when [...]

Step 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Alcoholics Anonymous pages 76-84. The clear- cut directions for Step 9 are laid out in our beloved AA Big Book in the chapter "Into Action. “As a lazy person, I do not like the title [...]

Step 8. Made a list of all persons we have harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Alcoholics Anonymous, page 59. Holding my pen in hand I asked God to help me be fearless and thorough and show me the truth, and I got it. In the writing of my 4th and [...]

Hi, my name is Jeanne K and I am a compulsive overeater. I first came into OA in August of 1978 after struggling with several paid weight loss programs. While seeing a professional for other issues, he suggested OA. I had never heard about OA and requested a meeting list from the OAMBI office and [...]

Step 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Alcoholics Anonymous page 59 . The directions for Step 7 are in our beloved AA BB in the form of a prayer. Step 7. "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove [...]

 Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Alcoholics Anonymous, page 59.   In our beloved AA Big Book, the directions for Step 5 are found in Chapter 6 - Into Action, pages 72-75. "Now these are about to be cast out." AA Big Book  page 72. [...]

STEP 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Alcoholics Anonymous, page 59. In our beloved AABB I find the clear cut directions for Step 3 in Chapter 5: How It Work, pages 58-64 I conceded to the fact that in Step [...]