The 12 Steps Within Group starting in person November 5th

The 12 Steps Within group in East Greenwich has switched back to an in person meeting. It will be held every Saturday from 10:00am – 11:00am starting November 5, 2022. The meeting is held at St Lukes Church 99 peirce street, East Greenwich, RI 02818.

For directions, click here

New in-person OA Brown Book meeting

This meeting is open to all and any who desire to stop eating compulsively. The primary text is Overeaters Anonymous, the beloved Brown Book: stories of physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery reflecting the practice of the twelve steps.

Mondays, 10-11 am.

Angel Hall, Enders Island Retreat Center, 

I put my hand in yours,

and together we can do what we could never do alone. No longer is there a sense of hopelessness, no longer must we each depend upon our own unsteady willpower. We are all together now, reaching out our hands for power and strength greater than ours, and as we join hands, we find love and understanding beyond our wildest dreams."

When Rozanne S wrote this in 1968, it was simply the first paragraph of the OA handbook, I Put My Hand in Yours. Fast forward 54 years and we find these words have earned iconic status - a poignant affirmation known as Rozanne's Prayer,aka the OA Promise.

Even today, hearing or saying the OA Promise invokes for me a 1960s starry-eyed sentiment that makes my inner cynic twitch. Beyond our wildest dreams? Turn on the news, open a paper - and I wonder how people outside program can even find a quiet place to DREAM of love and understanding. I rarely see strength and unity celebrated on the 6 o'clock news. On certain designated holidays, yes. But what percentage do these days constitute of the whole year? Eight percent?

Yet here we are, 54 years later, with OA stronger than ever. When I'm in a meeting that chooses to use Rozanne's prayer in closing, sometimes I hear grumbling ('it 'doesn't come from the Bible so how can it be a real prayer', etc). Yet I don't hear grumbling about the concept. Peer pressure to focus up? Perhaps. Yet if I can IMAGINE a place full of hope, strength, unity, love and understanding, then maybe I can FIND it. After all, who could imagine the strength of a little crocus, or a downy baby bunny, emerging alive, soft, and gorgeous, from a hole in the snow. Yet year after year, this same miracle comes to life from darkness. The season turns, and the world is new. 

So for today, I put my hand in yours. 

- Michelle H, Tiverton

Thank You Cherry Hill NJ OA Big Book Study

If you want a nice shot in the arm to boost your program try listening to the Cherry Hill NJ OA Big Book Study. The live zoom is Sunday mornings at 10am and they tape the speaker each week, so just CLICK HERE and sit back and enjoy.

Great news!

Voices of Recovery, Second Edition Arrives in Print and Digital Formats

Great news! The long-awaited second edition of OA’s beloved daily reader Voices of Recovery is finally available, both in our OA bookstore and online digital platforms. The second edition has been attentively reviewed and edited to bring its daily meditations—sourced directly from the testimonials of OA members—into alignment with OA’s currently available literature and policies. Physical copies can be obtained in our bookstore at bookstore.oa.org, inventory number #986-2, and digital downloads are available for purchase on the following platforms:

Amazon Kindle: Click Here

Barnes and Noble Nook: Click Here

Apple Books: coming soon

Here is the direct link to the OA bookstore page: Click Here

We have a new website! It takes a lot of time to do this, thank you to all involved for your service and look forward to sharing the new look further down the road. The meetings are much easier to access from a cell phone as well.

Give it a try: https://oceanandbay.org/

SPECIAL FOCUS MEETINGS

You are welcome at any OA meeting, and we hope you’ll try many of the meetings on our Connecticut Intergroup and oa.org meeting lists! Some of our members find they also benefit from OA meetings with members who share similar experiences, so we are sharing this list of some of the special focus resources that are available in OA.

100 Pounders: https://oa.org/find-a-meeting/?type=1&special_focus=13&sort=ASC&timezone=EST&limit=20&paged=1&submit=true

American Sign Language & Closed Caption – This meeting offers ASL interpretation Tuesdays at 8:00 pm Eastern: ASL Tues 8pm

Anorexics and Bulimics in OA – special focus meetings: Anorexics/Bulimics in OA

Asian-Pacific Islander OA https://oa.org/find-a-meeting/?meeting_id=57371

Atheist, Agnostics, Secular - special focus meetings: https://oa.org/find-a-meeting/?type=1&special_focus=28&sort=ASC&timezone=EST&limit=20&paged=1&submit=true

Bariatric Surgery - https://oa.org/find-a-meeting/?type=1&special_focus=25&sort=ASC&timezone=EST&limit=20&paged=1&submit=true

BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & People of Color) – special focus meetings: BIPOC Intergroup

Health Issues - https://oa.org/find-a-meeting/?type=1&special_focus=24&sort=ASC&timezone=EST&limit=20&paged=1&submit=true

LGBTQ special focus meetings for OA: bit.ly/ckslist and https://oa.org/find-a-meeting/?type=1&special_focus=27&sort=ASC&timezone=EST&limit=20&paged=1&submit=true

OAMen.org is dedicated to distributing information about meetings, resources, and support for men in OA: Men in OA

Young People in OA – resources for those under 30 who suffer from compulsive eating include Meetings for young persons and https://oa.org/young-people/

For more special focus meetings, you can go to OA.org:

• go to Find a Meeting 
• select a type of meeting (face-to-face, online, telephone, or non-real-time)
• click on "additional search options" and select the desired special focus