Big crowd

The meeting last night was great! It was a speaker meeting and I really talked it up at my other meetings. There were ten of us last night, one newcomer and four people who'd never been to that meeting before. Some said they would be back. Yah! For about a month there have been two or three of us. I need that meeting to thrive because I need that meeting.

I also committed to going to this month's intergroup meeting. It's the third Saturday. I'm doing better this year at acting upon the decisions I made at the OA conference. I've signed up for a big book weekend. I've talked to my sponsor more in the past week than I have in the past month. I've added morning reading into my day.

I've been reading the AA 12 & 12. This is such a good book. It's more straight forward than the Overeaters Anonymous 12 & 12. The OA version is nice because it talks specifically about food, but the AA version is clearer and stronger. I want all my sponsees to get a copy so we can use it for step work. Now I know where my sponsor gets it from.

I feel clearheaded and awake today. I love Overeaters Anonymous. This program has saved my life.

Comments

[Cindy]

It was good for me that you put about your group finally growing. Ours has done the same thing! Did you do anything different to draw in people? We are trying to come up with ways to keep them coming back. Any ideas?

Thanks for sharing!
Hugs...Cindy

[Dodi]

I really talked about the Thursday meeting at my other two meetings in the area. I also called a few people I thought would connect with the speaker.

I heard a speaker share at a meeting that in order for a newcomer to keep coming back they need to hear hope and see recovery in the people there. That makes a lot of sense to me. What I remember about my first meeting was hearing my story and the fellowship. Would I have kept showing up if I identified but didn't see anything I wanted for myself?

I know I'm lucky. There is a lot of recovery in my meetings. I hear awful stories about sick meetings. It's funny, we've talked about taking out ads and putting up the OA signs, but until we have a strong base of sponsors who show up I hesitate to move forward on that. I feel odd when I'm the person with the longer time in the rooms and the only sponsor. I'm such a newbie. It was awesome to go and here people with 7 and 19 years of abstinence. Kind of a chicken and egg thing.