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Updated 20 April 2009
Individual OA members can purchase OA literature from their local meetings or directly from World Service online. Lifeline
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form in PDF format. Below is a partial list of the OA books and pamphlets that are available. If you would like a copy of the complete catalog in PDF format with descriptions and prices, click here. Pamphlets: "Many Symptoms, One Solution" Our symptoms vary, but we share a common bond. This flyer shows new and potential OA members how compulsive eaters differ, yet all can find recovery in our program. "OA Is Not a Diet Club" Describes what Overeaters Anonymous is and what it is not, and reviews why it works. "A Program of Recovery" Offers a brief summary of OA's Twelve-Step program, including 15 questions to help determine if you are a compulsive overeater. "Questions & Answers" Answers questions and offers definitions about everything newcomers, members, professionals and the general public might want to know about OA and its program. "To the Newcomer" The three aspects of recovery-physical, emotional and spiritual-are explained in a clear, inspiring publication, showing us how to tackle the isolation we may often feel. "To the Man Who Wants to Stop Compulsive Overeating, Welcome" Offers encouragement to male OA members with this collection of personal stories by men who are recovering in OA. "A Commitment to Abstinence" Suggests ways to get and keep your abstinence and how to develop your own plan of eating. Learn about H.A.L.T., as well as actions that have led OA members to physical, as well as emotional and spiritual recovery. "Person to Person" Describes service we can do to "carry the message to the compulsive overeater who still suffers." "Before You Take That First Compulsive Bite, Remember ..." What can I do when confronted with the urge to overeat? Find the information and inspiration you need in this pamphlet's suggestions, and use them to do an inventory. "Welcome Back" Offers encouragement and new perspectives to the OAer returning after a relapse. Covers such topics as fear, denial, the perfection myth, and powerlessness versus responsibility. "Members in Relapse" OAers who have experienced relapse recount what helped get them back into recovery. Also included is an open discussion on Twelfth-Step-Within service to help those in relapse. "Just for Today" Inspiring suggestions for living one day at a time, combined with the Twelve Steps and the Serenity Prayer, on a folded, pocket-sized card. Books: "The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous" The entire panorama of the OA recovery program in this comprehensive work provides a detailed, often moving exploration of how OA's Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions help members recover and how the Fellowship functions as a whole. Questions after each Tradition are designed to help strengthen your meeting. Soft cover; 240 pages. "The Twelve-Step Workbook of Overeaters Anonymous" Deepen and strengthen your personal program by answering these thought-provoking questions drawn from and page-referenced to The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous. Soft cover; 128 pages. "For Today" An OA best-seller that offers inspiring and thought-provoking affirmations and readings for each day of the year, written especially for OA members. Handy pocket-sized book with bookmark; hardcover as available; 374 pages. "Lifeline Sampler" A selection of articles from Lifeline magazine. Read about abstinence, spirituality, Steps, Traditions, the disease, food, weight, self-esteem, body image, service, relapse, relationships, anger and fear. Soft cover; indexed; 448 pages. "Abstinence" Ninety-five member-written essays from Lifeline magazine offer help, encouragement and direction as you strive for and maintain abstinence. Describes perspectives, practical ideas and turning points that have helped others. Defines abstinence, the tools, personal inventories, relapse and how your personal definition of abstinence may change over time. Soft cover; 176 pages. |
