New Ocean & Bay Website!
Our new website includes an event calendar, meeting list, information for newcomers, and more! 
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Meeting List
* Please call ahead to verify meetings are taking place, especially during holidays.
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Ocean & Bay Intergroup
Next Meeting:
We meet on the first Tuesday of each month and all are welcome. Check it out
- Literature Sales 7:00-7:30 pm
- Intergroup Meeting 7:30-8:30 pm
St. Patrick Catholic Church, 2068 Cranston Street, Cranston, RI 02920.
Directions
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Intergroup Board
CONTACT US
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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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How has your abstinence been lately? Is your disease like mine--cunning, baffling and powerful? Do you have a food plan? How solid is your program?
Regardless of your answers, I encourage you to join us on Sunday, May 17 from 1:00-3:30 p.m. for an Intergroup sponsored workshop called "
Beyond the Food: Breaking the Chain of Food Addiction."
It's an opportunity to renew your commitment to recovery, listen to inspiring speakers, and enjoy the fellowship of OA.
I look forward to seeing you there!
In humble service,
"As Always"
Kara
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Gratitude
After a long winter, spring is finally here. We are grateful for the warmer days and the beauty of the flowers yet to bloom. Just as spring reminds us of life's constant opportunities for renewal, so too does our program of recovery. Through the twelve steps of OA we have the opportunity to blossom into our best versions of ourselves.
May we all be continually grateful for the many blessings of the program.
-Reprinted from
The Butterfly,
the Greater Cincinnati OA Newsletter
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I decided to change my lunch today, my sponsor won't mind--it's an even exchange. A little bit more won't hurt, I'm hungrier today. No time for my morning meditation, got too much to do. I don't need to write my food down, I'm doing great!
These are the thoughts and actions that preceded my recent relapse. I was already slipping when my family endured an unexpected tragedy. My program friends offered their support, but I was fine! I was so fine that I picked up a food that I knew was a problem for me. Over time, my meals got bigger. I thought it best to tell my sponsor about some of what I was eating, not all, because I was going to clean my food up soon. Anyway, maybe I was making too much of this problem ingredient. I decided to have a piece of dessert. It was delicious. I didn't eat the whole serving: I know what a normal portion looks like! The following day the cravings started. What I wouldn't give for... wait a minute, I know that voice. It's my disease, but HOW?
I wasn't honest with myself or my sponsor. I wasn't open to the idea that I needed help. I wasn't willing to accept that I couldn't do it alone.
Recovery from my relapse began with complete honesty about my food and eating. Confessing to my sponsor lifted a great burden. She didn't berate me or drop me. She thanked me for being honest. At a recent retreat, I received a boost for my program from the shared recovery. I've made a commitment to working the tools, as well as recommitting to all of my recovery habits. Each day, I pray for the willingness to be open and honest. It's terrific to be abstinent a day at a time, with all of your love and support.
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Principle of Step Five: Integrity 
Sound moral character. Wholeness or completeness. Liars do not have sound moral character. It is only by being honest with ourselves, our Higher Power, and others that we will be made whole, will recover from our compulsion.
Only by admitting the ways that we have wronged ourselves and others can we begin the journey that will lead to wholeness and health. Integrity gives the freedom to live fully and honestly every day. One day at a time.
-Charlotte D.M.
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 Heard it at a Meeting
The wit, wisdom and human-ness of OA is captured in the sayings or truisms we share with each other at meetings. So, we'd like to create a new column in the Ocean & Bay Newsletter called "Heard it at a Meeting." Keeping anonymity in mind, we ask that you submit anything you've heard at a meeting that has helped your recovery by emailing us at
oceanandbayoa@yahoo.com.
Here are three examples submitted by fellow OA members:
- Love God, Clean House, Do Service.
- I'm grateful that through recovery I no longer have to make my problems everyone else's problems.
- Easy does it.
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Reach for Recovery
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Call for Submissions
Are you creative? Do you expressing yourself through the written word? We welcome submissions from members that are OA related.
Please email us your poems, articles, insights, artwork, anything that helps you share your Experience, Strength and Hope!
Heard something poignant at a meeting? It can be something as simple as a phrase you that touched you while someone was sharing. You can inspire others and do service by emailing us at
oceanandbayoa@yahoo.com.
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Journals for Sale
Our 90-day journal features left-hand pages for daily writing, recording your food plan, and listing gratitudes; right-hand pages are dedicated to evening reflection and 10th Step review. Also includes morning and evening prayers and Twelve Step inspiration. Wire bound 5½ x 8½.
Only $15 | Available through Ocean & Bay Intergroup
Journals will be on sale at the workshop on May 17.
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