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    Serving Rhode Island & Southeastern Massachusetts
 
Upcoming Events

April, 2020
April 19, 2020: 8:30 am
A Vision for You:   Sunday Special Meeting
"The Family Afterward"
Dial: 712-432-5210  Conf. ID: 876148#

April 26, 2020: 8:30 am
A Vision for You:  Sunday Special Meeting 
"Attitude of Gratitude"
Dial: 712-432-5210  Conf. ID: 876148#

May 2020
May 2, 2020: 10-11:15 am
SE CT Speaker Meeting
Dial: 605-313-5857 
Access Code: 658766#

May 5, 2020: 6:30-7:30 pm
Ocean and Bay Intergroup (via Zoom)
Zoom link    Meeting ID: 394 212 047
Password: 247365
Call in:  16465588656
Meeting ID: 394212047

May 10, 2020: 3-4:30 pm
OA Virtual Region Workshop
"Utilizing OA Toolkit in a Virtual World"
Meeting ID: 557 696 207
Password: 120912
Call in:  720-707-2699
Meeting ID: 557696207#
Seventh Tradition
 
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
Intergroup Board
CONTACT US  
Vice Chair:  John C. [email protected]

Treasurer:  Sandy C. [email protected]

Recording Sec.:  Lisa [email protected]

World Service Delegate:   Kara M.

Region 6 Delegate:   Kara M. 

Newsletter Editor: Erin F. [email protected]

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. 

 

Strategic Goals 
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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Stay Connected!

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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].
"Bit by bit, I turn my over my will and my life as I become conscious that I am not in a position to control a particular person, place, thing, situation, circumstance, or event. As trust builds, I experience increasing peace of mind and a new reaction to stress, fear, anxiety, frustration, and disappointment: the desire to ask for help."
- Voices of Recovery: Oct. 5 -  

Ocean & Bay: Events/Updates

STAY CONNECTED:
Join a phone or zoom meeting!
** updated as of Apr 12, 2020**

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Lead a telephone meeting! 
If you can read, you can lead!
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Region 6 & 
World Service Messages:
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Ocean & Bay Intergroup meeting: 
Tue, May 5th: 6:30-7:30pm 
Please consider joining us (via Zoom) to give us an update and learn ways that Ocean & Bay Intergroup can support you! 

or, call 646-558-8656 
(Meeting ID# 394 212 047)
*Meeting will open at 6:15p 
for fellowship and tech support*

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Step Four: 
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
(Spiritual Principle: Courage)
 
How we choose to look at and deal with our lives and the world lies at the core of the disease. We need to consider such things as self-centeredness, anger, resentment, fear, pride, dishonesty, and negative thinking as well as our sexual attitudes and behaviors. The self-analysis we do in Step Four is essential to our recovery from compulsive eating. This Step continues the transformation process that began with our admission of powerlessness in Step One, a process of increasing honesty and self-awareness that will gradually free us from our bondage to self. Our past problems have been controlling our actions and feelings for years, often in ways of which we are not aware. As we face our problems, they lose their power to overwhelm and control us.


Tradition Four:
Each group should be autonomous 
except in matters affecting other groups or OA as a whole.
(Spiritual Principal: Autonomy)
 
As individuals, we are responsible for ourselves free to work (or not work) the Twelve Step program however we wish. The same principle holds true for OA groups. Tradition Four - the Tradition of autonomy - gives OA groups the right and responsibility to operate as they see fit, free from any outside influence. There is only one limit to group autonomy in Tradition Four: Groups should not do anything that will injure other OA groups or OA as a whole.
 
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition
Ocean & Bay Intergroup 
P.O. Box 41273, Providence RI, 02940
Tel: 401-438-1301 | Email:   oceanandbay[email protected]