What OA Offers You

OA is a fellowship that offers:

• Acceptance of you  -  As you are now, as you were, as you will be.
• Understanding of the problems you face now  -  and share, almost certainly  -  with others in the group.
• Communication  -  Since we find that we identify with each other, communication becomes the natural result of our mutual understanding and acceptance.
• Relief  -  Having found acceptance, understanding, and communication with others, we have found relief from our illness and help toward a new self-acceptance and self-understanding.
• Power  -  By the acceptance and understanding of oneself, by the practice of the twelve-step recovery program, by the belief in a power greater than oneself, by the support and companionship of the group, a door is opened to a new way of life.

Is OA for you?
Only you can decide that question; no one else can make this decision for you.  We who are now in OA have found a way of life which enables us to live without the need for excess food.  We believe that compulsive overeating is a progressive illness, one that, like alcoholism and some other illnesses, can be arrested.  Remember, there is no shame in admitting you have a problem; the most imortant thing is to do something about it.