A recovery program for people suffering from compulsive eating disorders
Together, hand in hand, let's do what we could never do alone
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Three intergroups serving the Quebec OA community
IOAFM - Montreal
French OA Intergroup of Montreal
Serving the Montreal metropolitan area with French-language meetings
Visit SiteIOAQ - Quebec City
OA Intergroup of Quebec
Serving the Quebec City region and surrounding areas
Visit SiteWhat is OA?
Overeaters Anonymous is a community of people who share their experience, strength, and hope to recover from compulsive eating. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.
OA is not a diet club. We practice a twelve-step and twelve-tradition program of recovery, adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous. OA welcomes anyone with a food problem, whether compulsive overeating, anorexia, bulimia, or any other eating disorder.
We recover on three levels: physical, emotional, and spiritual. The program is based on acceptance, freedom, and serenity.
The Twelve Steps
The Twelve Steps form the foundation of our recovery program. They offer us a spiritual framework for transforming our lives.
We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
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.
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.
The Twelve Steps are reprinted with permission of Overeaters Anonymous World Service Office.
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