Ocean & Bay Intergroup Meetings
First Tuesday of every month
6-6:30p: Literature Sales & Fellowship
6:30-7:30p: Intergroup Meeting
*New Location: 19 Foster Rd. Cranston*
UPCOMING EVENTS
MARCH
March 8: 3-4:30p
Body Image (Virtual) Workshop
March 9: 7pm
SE CT Speaker Meeting
Personal Stories of Recovery
St. Paul's - 56 Great Hammock Rd., Old Saybrook
March 25: 6-7pm
Monthly Fellowship Hour
Middletown Police Department, Middletown, RI
APRIL
April 4: 9-10:30a
Greenville Big Book Step Study - 14th Anniversary!
Greenville Public Library - 573 Putnam Pike
April 4: 1-4pm
Food Plan Workshop
Unity Hill Church in Trumbull, CT
April 18: 9:30-6p
OA Region Six Spring 2020 Assembly
Red Lion Hotel | Wolf Rd. | Albany, NY
MAY
May 2: 9-12:30p
Abstinence & Recovery: keeping it simple workshop
St. Luke's Church, Gales Ferry, CT
Contact Deb for questions: 860-917-5756
May 3rd, 17th, 24th, 31st: 1-3pm
Quick Step the 12 Steps!
614 Spencer Street | Fall River, MA
or text Diane at 401-573-3489
May 31st: 5pm
Monthly Fellowship Hour
Arts Guild, Portsmouth, RI
JUNE
June 1: 7pm
SE CT Speaker Meeting
Union Baptist Church, 119 High Street | Mystic, CT
June 19-21
Tranquility: Living the Program, Walking the Walk
(Tranquility Weekend Retreat)
Incarnation Conference Center - Deep River, CT
Questions/Register - Contact:
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The Seventh Tradition states OA is fully self-supporting, accepting contributions only from OA members. Groups may send either monthly o
r periodic donations (via mail or in person) to Intergroup.
Thank you for your donation, which helps us to spread the word of recovery.
Please mail donations to:
Ocean and Bay Intergroup
Attn: Treasurer
P.O. Box 41273
Providence, RI 02940
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Intergroup Board
CONTACT US
Public Information/ Professional Outreach:
Holly
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Mission & Vision
Ocean & Bay Intergroup is dedicated to supporting individuals in need of recovery from compulsive eating (e.g.: overeating, bulimia, anorexia) through carrying the OA message and empowering all meetings within the Intergroup.
1. Help members strengthen their personal recovery
2. Increase the number of sponsors
3. Increase the number of newcomers
4. Increase the retention of newcomers
5. Help those in relapse
6. Inspire people to give more service
7. Increase outreach activities, including outreach to members and healthcare professionals
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GROUP CONTACT INFORMATION:
Please check your meeting contact name and information on both the
local Ocean and Bay Meeting List (send changes to [email protected]) as well as the Overeaters Anonymous website meeting list and make any necessary changes.
* Please call ahead to verify meetings are taking place, especially during holidays. *
Updated Jan 2020*
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Please note that every effort has been made to adhere to OA's policy for newsletter publications.
Opinions and experiences expressed within are those of the individual writer and not OA as a whole.
REMINDER: This is your newsletter, so please feel free to submit your writing contributions to: [email protected].
You are also invited to be one of the members who provides answers for a Q&A. Again, just send us a note to: [email protected].
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"It is inspiring to realize that, apart from nature, all that is good and beautiful in this world has come from human inventions and discoveries."
- For Today: April 27 -
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Ocean & Bay Events & Updates
Ocean & Bay's Monthly Fellowship Hour
Come join other Ocean & Bay fellows for a chance to get your questions answered, learn more about OA, and mingle
Next meeting
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Mar 25 | 6-7pm | Middletown Police Department
Contact Diane with any questions: 401-573-3489
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gion/World Service Updates
Region 6 Spring Assembly
SATURDAY, APRIL 18 | 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
RED LION HOTEL ALBANY | 205 Wolf Road, Albany, NY
Region 6 Convention
Oct 23-25 | Burlington, MA
World Service Business Conference
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Step Three:
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of [a Higher Power] as we understood [our Higher Power].
(Spiritual Principle: Faith)
It is impossible to take Step Three until we have taken the first two Steps. Once we have fully acknowledged our fatal powerlessness and have come to believe that there is a solution, however, the Third Step is simple. If we want to live free of the killing disease of compulsive eating, we accept help without reservation from a Power greater than ourselves and begin taking the action that will allow us to receive that help. We now say yes to this Power, deciding from here on to follow spiritual guidance in making every decision.
"If OA doesn't give us any rules to follow, how are we to find the guidance we must have to avoid compulsive eating?" The decision we have made in Step Three answers this important question. We have found that when we give up self-will regarding food and completely turn our lives over to our Higher Power, we receive all kinds of guidance. For instancec, after years spent in the struggle with this disease, we have been able to take an honest look at our past experiences and identify for ourselves the specific kinds of foods and eating behaviors that give us the most trouble...Now that we are working the Steps and accept our Higher Power's guidance, we have been given the power of choice about our eating...We find that, once we recognize our own particular problem areas, we become willing to select foods and behaviors that don't fuel our obsession.
Tradition Three:
The only requirement for OA membership is
a desire to stop eating compulsively.
(Spiritual Principal - Identity)
No person who has this desire can be barred from any OA group. OA members come from many different backgrounds, races, and religions. We can, and do, have differences in opinions, political views, values, lifestyles, age, gender, sexual orientation, and economic status. A person can never be too overweight, too underweight, or too normal in weight to be an OA member.
We encourage one another to keep coming back, no matter what. In fact, many of us have kept coming back to OA despite problems with abstinence and have found this to be the key to our recovery. In OA, the door never closes to a member who has returned to active compulsive eating, and many members who have maintained long-term abstinence had, at some time in the past, felt themselves to be hopeless because they had trouble staying abstinent or experienced a relapse.
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition
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