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ANONYMITY - STEPS 11 & 12
This Overeaters Anonymous Workshop deals with the topic of Anonymity. Several speakers take their turn at the podium and offer unique perspectives on the importance of OA traditions eleven and twelve. A couple of speakers go as far as saying that anonymity should be carried to the point of not revealing to another member what occurred at an earlier meeting. The potential problems of breaking your own or someone else's anonymity is discussed.
Contents - 7 Tracks
Length - 35 Minutes
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FACING DEFECTS - STEP 6
This Overeaters Anonymous Workshop was recorded at the Overeaters Anonymous Region IV Convention in Wichita, KS. First, the Chairman of the meeting shares her thoughts and experiences on the topic of Facing Defects and then several people from the crowd in attendance also do the same. A lot of information is shared.
Contents - 11 Tracks
Length - 50 Minutes
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FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD
This Overeaters Anonymous Workshop is entitled: Faith Without Works is Dead. Several people take their turns at the microphone and talk about how they’ve dealt with their shortcomings. They speak extensively about steps six and seven. They speak about their character defects. This is a great workshop for the recovering compulsive overeater.
Contents - 15 Tracks
Length – 75 Minutes
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FOOD FRENZY - EATING SOBER IN RECOVERY
This is a unique recording because it’s part AA/Addiction Recovery and part an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. We included it in this category because the main topic is food and problems with eating. This was recorded in San Francisco, California on July 4th, 1986. The speaker is Lynn Elliot, the director of the Food Dependency Program in a local treatment center. Lynn says that it’s very important that we never discount the effect that food has on our bodies. She says that it’s high time that the two fields of Chemical Dependency and Nutritional Medicine are coming together to improve lives. Lynn talks about hypoglycemia and food allergies. She discusses the “crash” after the sugar high. Lynn gives the crowd 15 really interesting questions to help them diagnose if they may have developed an eating problem now that they’re in recovery. There is a question and answer period at the end of this recording.
Contents – 15 Tracks
Length – 75 Minutes
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GOD IS DOING FOR ME
This Overeaters Anonymous Workshop recording is called; God is Doing for Me What I Could Not Do for Myself. This recording was made at a recent Overeaters Anonymous World Services Conference. There are many different speakers on this CD. Several different men and women take their turns at the podium and relate their stories as to how things changed when a higher power came into their lives. It’s a very uplifting message.
Contents - 15 Tracks
Length - 74 Minutes
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HARMS LIST - STEP 8
This Overeaters Anonymous Workshop recording deals with the topic of making a list of all people we have harmed. The chairman speaks for quite a while about this topic. After that, several men and women share their experience with this same topic. The chairman of this meeting is quite knowledgeable and he fields quite a few questions from the people in attendance at this meeting. He has quite a good perspective.
Contents - 12 Tracks
Length - 57 Minutes
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HUMILITY TRAIL
This Overeaters Anonymous Workshop recording was made in Wichita, Kansas at the Overeaters Anonymous Region Four Convention. The topic is HUMILITY. There are several women that take their turns at the podium and share their experience, strength & hope with the group.
Contents - 11 Tracks
Length - 54 Minutes
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LET GO AND LET GOD
This Overeaters Anonymous Workshop is opened with the serenity prayer. The chairperson talks for quite a while on the topic of letting go and letting God. This recording has just a few additional speakers sharing their experiences on this topic but they are all very inspiring.
Contents - 12 Tracks
Length - 58 Minutes
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MAKING AMENDS
This Overeaters Anonymous Workshop was made at the Region Four Convention of Overeaters Anonymous in Wichita, Kansas. This is an excellent recording. Several members of the group go to the podium and one by one they share their stories about how making amends in the OA program has changed their lives. Their stories are very heartfelt.
Contents – 11 Tracks
Length - 55 Minutes
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MICHAEL EARL - REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - AUGUST 2001
Michael presented this excellent Overeaters Anonymous talk in Reykjavik, Iceland in August 0f 2001. She begins by introducing herself and stating that she has been a member of OA for 21 years. In those 21 years she has been fat, obese, anorexic, and bulimic. She is now normal size and pretty Happy, Joyous and Free. She is also a member of Alcoholics Anonymous but she says the most difficult struggles in her life have been with food. Michael believes that a contributing factor to her developing an eating disorder is from her early childhood. Her mother was an active alcoholic and Michael in an effort to be different from her mother, turned to food instead of alcohol. One of the biggest breakthroughs came when she decided to let her higher power take some of the responsibility from her. She says a very basic prayer asking to get through the day without overeating. As she is wrapping up her talk, she tells of many instances when she had turned to diet pills. Michael describes these attempts as her try to find that easier, softer way. She finally realized that there is no easier, softer way and that Overeaters Anonymous is “the last house on the block”. If you are a beginner in the OA program or have been around for a while, this incredible lady is definitely worth hearing.
Contents – 6 Tracks
Length - 31 Minutes
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PROCRASTINATION - SLOTH IN FIVE SYLLABLES
On this Overeaters Anonymous Workshop recording on Procrastination you’ll hear about 10 men and women who identify themselves as compulsive overeaters, take their turns at the podium, one by one. They explain how putting their programs off until another time has never been good for them. Their stories are obviously told from their hearts. Very inspiring.
Contents – 15 Tracks
Length – 71 Minutes
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SUBLIMINAL AFFIRMATIONS FOR RECOVERING OVEREATERS
The subliminal messages on this CD are recorded just below the conscious level of understanding but they will be absorbed by your subconscious mind. They will have a gradual, positive effect on your spontaneous thoughts and attitudes. This recording is designed to enrich and strengthen recovery. This subliminal recording is not a substitute for active participation in a 12 step recovery program.
Contents – 2 Tracks
Length - 59 Minutes
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THE TWELVE STEPS OF OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (3 CDs)
This is the complete audio version of the book, Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous. This is a step by step guide to OA’s recovery program from the compulsive overeater’s perspective. Weather you’re a novice or an experienced member, you’ll want to listen to this work again and again, and you’ll most assuredly feel the collective support of all those striving to recover.
Contents - 35 Tracks
Length -158 Minutes
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TOM M - MINNEAPOLIS, MN 2001
This is a very inspiring Overeaters Anonymous talk by: TOM M. Tom recorded this talk at the age of 28 in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2001.Tom tells us that he’s had a compulsive eating problem since he was in the 3rd grade. He explains that after moving to Minneapolis, he was so distraught about life that he basically just ate and ate and ate and ate. He was 120 pounds overweight and his doctor told him the answer to his problems was to “jog.” At one point he was so sad that he remembers just sitting on the edge of his bead and crying. It was at this point that he finally called OA. At his very first Overeaters Anonymous meeting he knew he had “Come Home.” Now with the help of OA, he practices a program of “saneness around food.” He lives one day at a time with spirituality and a connection to a higher power. He’s lost 70 pounds in six months and has never felt so inspired. A great OA talk.
Contents – 9 Tracks
Length – 45 minutes
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TOUGH LOVE
This complete title of this Overeaters Anonymous Workshop recording is Tough Love: Pick Yourself Up and Start Over Again. The chairwoman introduces two other women on the panel who eventually speak as well as others from the audience. The topic of “Tough Love” is thoroughly discussed. Good meeting.
Contents - 15 Tracks
Length - 69 Minutes
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ZAN D - BRENTWOOD, CA 11-17-01
Zan, a very lively speaker from Los Angeles, California recorded this Overeaters Anonymous talk at the Light a Candle Meeting in Brentwood, California on November 17th, 2001. Zan begins her talk by saying that OA is the best thing that has happened to her and that she’s a real cheerleader for the program. She says that in her early years she was very normal, when she was full she quit eating. Zan began eating compulsively in her early teens. She was also a People Pleaser. Zan has been abstaining for over 20 years and she speaks in great detail about how weighing and measuring her food has been an immensely freeing experience. Her talk is very inspirational and afterward she takes questions from the crowd in attendance. This is a recording of the entire meeting with introductory readings and the closing comments.
Contents – 11 Tracks
Length – 55 Minutes
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