Tools of Recovery

Tools of Recovery

In working Overeaters Anonymous’ Twelve-Step program of recovery from compulsive overeating, we have found a number of tools to assist us. We use these tools regularly to help us achieve and maintain abstinence and recover from our disease.

A Plan of Eating	Telephone
Sponsorship	Writing
Meetings	Action Plan
Anonymity	Service

In Overeaters Anonymous (OA), the Statement on Abstinence and Recovery is “Abstinence is the action of refraining from compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors while working towards or maintaining a healthy body weight. Spiritual, emotional and physical recovery is the result of living the Overeaters Anonymous Twelve-Step program.” Many of us have found we cannot abstain from compulsive eating unless we use some or all of OA’s nine tools of recovery to help us practice the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.

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For more information about OA, please go to the OA.org website.

Here are three brief readings we recommend to start with

• What To Expect
• What is OA About?
• Where do I Start, Everything a Newcomer Needs to Know

Tools of Recovery. © 2011 Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. All rights reserved.
For further information on the tools, please visit the Tools of Recovery page on oa.org. All images used on this website were obtained through resources in which there is no attribution required.