Overeaters Anonymous Podcast

Are you interested in helping to maintain your service body's website? Are you curious about what goes into building an OA website? Join host Meg M. and trustee Cyndy in this episode of Inside OA where they discuss the questions, concerns, and details involved—you will even learn some history of what it was like to carry the message in the "good old days" of the world wide web. "Back in the 90s," says Cyndy, "I had no comprehension of what a website would entail. Today it is a very important part of OA's working presence to bring people to our doors and get to a meeing and find out what Overeaters Anonymous is about."

In this episode, host Meg M introduces Susan, an OA member from Australia who has been in recovery since 1988 and has served as region chair and trustee. Together, they discuss the differences and benefits offered by face-to-face and online OA meetings. If you are new to OA or if you only attend one type of meeting, we invite you to listen to the extensive experience of these two OA members. OA members will generally recommend that newcomers attending six different OA meetings to find a meeting that works for you. Go to oa.org/find-a-meeting to search our database of 5,800 meetings worldwide or start your own meeting by looking up "How to Start a New Meeting" on oa.org.

Do you care about the quality of your OA group? Let's "get grounded in groups" in this episode of Inside OA! Take a few notes as host Meg M. interviews Bruce from Ottawa, Canada. Bruce is a former OA trustee who has been abstinent in OA since April 2005 and who has also served at the intergroup and region levels. Bruce discusses the importance of the group in personal recovery and the questions a group can reflect on to determine whether "its message to the compulsive overeater who still suffers" (Tradition Five) and to newcomers is truly one of hope, strength, and recovery through OA's Twelve Steps.

In this episode, we meet Emilia from Rome, Italy, who has ten years of recovery and is the trustee liaison to OA Region Nine, which encompasses more than 40 countries and 40 languages in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Together with host Meg M., Emilia discusses what it's like to serve in a multi-cultural and multi-lingual region. Emilia shares challenges and fears she has overcome on her journey to being elected as an OA board trustee as well as her successes at the world service level that have directly improve service opportunities for OA members in Region Nine. Listen in as Emilia also talks about the connection and bonds that come with serving such a diverse region and how OA fellowship and service can provide us all with good lives filled with moments of celebration and happiness.

Speaker Sandy discusses ways to be gentle with newcomers and returners, including consideration of different aspects of unity with diversity. She also covers Where Do I Start? (available in 48 languages at oa.org/start), advanced search options in Find a Meeting, and more Twelfth Step Within resources available on oa.org and bookstore.oa.org. Recorded at World Service Business Conference 2025.

Speaker Amodini leads Part 2 of this workshop and shares her experience, strength, and hope on the topic of living the Principles to carry the message. Recorded at World Service Business Conference 2025.

In this episode of Inside OA, host Meg M. interviews Bob, an OA trustee who joined the Fellowship in 2003 and found his first sponsor at an intergroup meeting. Bob has an accounting background, so serving as treasurer is a natural fit, but as he says, "I don't always look for treasurer positions . . . . I like to have fun with service. I do different things that are out of my reach." Speaking as board treasurer, Bob gives an inside view on what it takes to build and maintain our world service budget. And while the thought of serving as treasurer can be intimidating, Bob reminds us, "When you think about it, everyone has a checking account, everyone has a home budget that they deal with, so it's nothing more than that. . . . there's not really much of a difference." One important difference, however, is that OA treasurers help each other, and the same is true for all other service positions. "It's so wonderful to see that we support each other and we get better, and things get better because of that," says Bob. If you are curious about stepping up to service, lessons learned by giving service, or if just want to understand better the level of consideration given to your Seventh Tradition contribution, then press the play button!

Bob F. has been abstinent since January 1, 1986, and has served as Center Mic Monitor at World Service Business Conference since 2004. Listen as he and host Meg M. discuss the challenges and recovery rewards of giving service as Center Mic Monitor and at all levels of OA.

A short list of titles from among OA's more than 100 literature items available at bookstore.oa.org.

Written in 1980by the late Reverend Rollo M. Boas, this favorable assessment of Overeaters Anonymous offers a timeless truth: compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors are indicators of an individual's starved and suffocated spirit. However, with the encouragement, support, and wisdom of OA's Fellowship, the still-suffering compulsive eater can learn to wean themselves off the debilitating crutch of compulsive food behaviors and find peace in nurturing their spirit. As the individual surrounds themselves with the love found in the OA program, compulsive eating is diminished and a new sense of wholeness and balance emerges.

Dietitian H. Theresa Wright, MS, RD, LDN, explains how coming to understand problems with food as an addictive process improved the program and peer support based care she was already giving. Discovering Overeaters Anonymous, and learning about OA's Plan of Eating Tool, confirmed previous success in her practice and gave her a new and stronger way to provide care to her clients.

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