Open Letter to Members from Joy D.

Dear OA Friends,

Greetings from your Tri-County Intergroup! We feel so privileged to serve the OA community for Tarrant County and outlying areas. We take our roles seriously and at the same time have great fun planning our annual retreat, workshops, and participation in city and community health fairs. We also maintain a website http://www.oa-tricounty.org that offers program information, meeting times, and event announcements as well as producing a monthly inspirational newsletter distributed to all groups.

Ideally, each OA group contributes to the creative endeavors and business decisions of Tri-County Intergroup by sending at least one Intergroup Representative, or rotating Representatives, to our monthly hour-long meetings. We meet the first Saturday of each month. Our schedule is printed at the bottom of the meeting list in the newsletter.

Service is a vital tool in our recovery. Through Intergroup it’s a win/win situation. The quality of Intergroup’s value is increased and you will have a voice in its progress. As a group representative, your vote will help decide such issues as how the Intergroup’s budget can be better allocated, who will lead our annual retreat, what workshops will be offered, how improvements can be made to our website, and suggestions for public outreach. Imagine the influx of innovative ideas all the member group representatives could bring to the Intergroup efforts! Also, there are no abstinence requirements for service as an Intergroup Representative.

We lovingly invite you to consider helping us by learning about this new avenue of service available to you as OA members during our virtual October meeting. We would love to see you there. Check the calendar on the right for the link.

Sincerely,

Joy D.

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OA Men’s resources: https://www.oamen.org/

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Choosing Sanity

• Sanity would be to stop returning to offensive food and to stop obsessing about it.
• Sanity would be to choose to eat healthily and be capable of doing so.
• Sanity is seen in my behavior and it is also known to me by my thoughts.
• Sanity would be that I would be free of the bondage of myself.
• Sanity would be to not be preoccupied with feeling comfortable, physically and emotionally.
• Sanity would be to know and accept my physical limitations.
• Sanity would be to grow up and accept life on life’s terms – certain facts – that I cannot eat more than my body needs or else I will suffer.
• Sanity is knowing that if I eat foods that don’t agree with me, I will suffer.
• Sanity would be to choose to not suffer.
• Sanity would be able to regularly “eliminate,” to regularly exercise, meditate, and pray.
• Sanity would be to treat my body with compassion and treat it like I love it.
• Sanity would be the ability to treat my mind and spirit like they are the valuable gifts that they are.
• My serenity, my balance, and my sanity are taken from me when I am irritable, bloated, or chained to the toilet.
• I feel tethered to my “self” when I am off kilter and I am not a channel of God’s love.
• Insanity is that I keep doing the same thing or am obsessed with doing it differently.
• Insanity is trying to find a quick fix.
• Sanity is knowing that I lack the power to do this myself.

Gail M., Waco OA

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