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The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous
The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous
1. We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Permission to use the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous for adaptation granted to Overeaters Anonymous by AA World Services, Inc.
Although Overeaters Anonymous is a spiritual program, it is not a religious program, and use of OA material in the present connection does not imply OA’s affiliation with or endorsement of any sect, denomination or specific religious belief.
I am the author of Slender Steps to Sanity - Twelve-Step Notes of Hope. You may order a copy at Amazon.com (print or Kindle) or BN.com or the publisher's website.
Give a copy as service.
1. We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Permission to use the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous for adaptation granted to Overeaters Anonymous by AA World Services, Inc.
Although Overeaters Anonymous is a spiritual program, it is not a religious program, and use of OA material in the present connection does not imply OA’s affiliation with or endorsement of any sect, denomination or specific religious belief.
I am the author of Slender Steps to Sanity - Twelve-Step Notes of Hope. You may order a copy at Amazon.com (print or Kindle) or BN.com or the publisher's website.Give a copy as service.
I am an author of A Cloud of Witnesses – Two Big Books and Us by Barbara B. Rollins with OAStepper. You may order a copy at Amazon.com (print) or BN.com or the publisher's website. Kindle and Nook versions coming soon.
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