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Positive Action Changes Everything

MHIG Events

Some very exciting things are

happening in our area !

Mid-Hudson Intergroup is spreading the word about

Overeaters Anonymous at local wellness fairs!

If you have an interest in volunteering to help man a table,

or hear about an event in your area,

please contact Mary Ellen @ 845-562-1342

or email mamaweissman@hvc.rr.com for details.

Thank you to all those who have helped out so far!

Fall Cleanup

 October 13th, 12:30 pm 

 

Help clean up one mile of Rte 299 to be of service, connect with other compulsive eaters, and perhaps make amends for when our wrappers and such went out the window to hide the evidence of our compulsive eating.

We will be borrowing grabbers for you to use. First come first served. Woohoo!

Meeting Updates

  

The Beacon Friday night meeting has moved to Tuesday.

 

Time/Place/Contact: same as before 

OA WSO News

Click here to read the OA World Service Organization News Bulletin | August 2018
Click here to read the OA World Service Organization News Bulletin | September 2018

Lifeline Magazine Story

Trust Fund

 

Before OA, my life was a constant struggle. It was me against the world, and I couldn’t lower my defenses, or I’d be eaten alive. It was very stressful and tiring.

 

Lack of trust was one of my biggest problems. I grew up in a family in which anything you said could be used against you. I craved trust and intimacy, but had no blueprint of how they worked. So my attitude was black and white on the subject: I abandoned myself completely to relationships with friends or boyfriends, then shut the door on them as soon as I felt they had disappointed or betrayed me. Without realizing it, I was lonely. Still, I smiled too much, laughed too loud, and worked hard to maintain the illusion that I had lots of friends.

 

The same was true for my physical state. You couldn’t see my disease, but it was eating me up inside and damaging my digestive system. I ran my life like a dictator, but when it came to food, I was failing completely.

 

In the midst of my pride, I got just desperate enough to try OA. I kept coming back every week because I had nowhere else to go, yet I shared that I hated needing to be here. I’m so glad my HP kept guiding me patiently despite my resistance. The miracle started to happen as soon as I worked the Steps with a sponsor. I have no idea how it worked, but it did. The good thing is, today, I don’t need to understand.

 

Funnily enough, I was still surprised when I couldn’t trust my sponsor, or other members, or even my HP right away. But how could I? I needed to learn, practice, and be patient. Today, it’s fine if I need time and proof. It’s a relationship like any, and it needs time to grow. Every time I turn something over to my HP, she works miracles.

 

In one year of program with seven blessed months of abstinence, I’ve learned I don’t know what I need, but today it’s okay. I don’t need to know—my HP does. I just have to ask a question, pray for open-mindedness to receive and accept an answer, and ask for courage to act accordingly.

 

Today I have friends I trust, whom I call several times a week. I’ve stopped asking one person to be everything for me. My friends and I share deep and honest connections, doubts, fears, hopes, and laughter, and that’s a lot. My stomach doesn’t hurt anymore, and that’s a miracle. Sometimes, I think that recovery is a lot of work and I’d better quit. But I never do! Deep down I don’t want to. I’ve experienced something I never knew existed until coming into program serenity. I’ll do anything it takes to keep that serenity and my precious abstinence, even on lazy days. Thank you, my HP; thank you, OA; and thank you, life!

 

—Alice, Paris, France

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