OA Service Incentive

Answering the OA Denver phone line is excellent service
OA Spoken Here

Several years ago, I became a local intergroup telephone contact for information about Overeaters Anonymous. Because I am a contact person, I feel a responsibility to work my program to the best of my ability. When newcomers call, I would rather tell them of my 12 years of 97 percent absinence, than tell them I overate today, and I will try to be abstinent tomorrow.

If I did not have this service position, I would still work my program of recovery. However, because my disease is cunning, baffling, powerful and subtle, I need every hedge against it I can get. Service, no matter what size or type, is one of the best ways to keep the temptations of compulsive eating at bay.

from a gratefully recovering OA member

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