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The Twelve Steps are the heart of the OA recovery
program. They offer a new way of life that enables the compulsive
overeater to live without the need for excess food.
The ideas expressed in the Twelve Steps, which
originated in Alcoholics Anonymous, reflect practical experience and
application of spiritual insights recorded by thinkers throughout the
ages. Their greatest importance lies in the fact that they work! They
enable compulsive overeaters and millions of other Twelve-Steppers to
lead happy, productive lives. They represent the foundation upon which
OA is built.
The Twelve
Steps of Overeaters Anonymous |
- 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.
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Permission to use the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics
Anonymous for adaptation granted by AA World Services, Inc. |
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