- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA
unity. - For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He
may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted
servants; they do not govern. - The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.
- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or
OA as a whole. - Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the
compulsive overeater who still suffers. - An OA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the OA name to any related
facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige
divert us from our primary purpose. - Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
- Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service
centers may employ special workers. - OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or
committees directly responsible to those they serve. - Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name
ought never be drawn into public controversy. - Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we
need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films,
television, and other public media of communication. - Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these traditions, ever reminding us to
place principles before personalities.
Permission to use the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous for adaptation
granted by AA World Services, Inc.
For an in-depth study of the Twelve Traditions, read The Twelve Steps and Twelve
Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous available from our online literature catalog.
Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous
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The Twelve Traditions are the means by which OA remains unified in a common
cause. These Twelve Traditions are to the groups what the Twelve Steps are to the
individual. They are suggested principles to ensure the survival and growth of the
many groups that compose Overeaters Anonymous.
Like the Twelve Steps, the Twelve Traditions have their origins in Alcoholics
Anonymous. These Traditions describe attitudes which those early members believed
were important to group survival.
cause. These Twelve Traditions are to the groups what the Twelve Steps are to the
individual. They are suggested principles to ensure the survival and growth of the
many groups that compose Overeaters Anonymous.
Like the Twelve Steps, the Twelve Traditions have their origins in Alcoholics
Anonymous. These Traditions describe attitudes which those early members believed
were important to group survival.
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