Overeaters Anonymous Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

OA volunteers have helped translate OA literature into more than 30 languages worldwide! But to make that happen, registered OA service bodies must first apply for licensing from the World Service Office. If you have any interest in OA's translation process, you won't want to miss this episode!

Join us as Emilia from Rome, Italy, who has ten years of recovery and is the trustee liaison to OA Region Nine, makes a second appearance on Inside OA to explain the translation process and offer valuable insights along with our host Meg M.

Together they discuss the benefits of giving service as a translator—not the least of which is getting to read OA literature while giving back to your OA fellows! Another valuable service is using OA's glossary template to create a custom translation glossary for your language.

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.

"Inside OA" focuses on the transformative power of service in action. In this episode, Laurie O. shares about jumping in as an appointed OA trustee, working as a Convention 2025 Committee member, and the many great reasons to attend the upcoming OA World Service Convention this August 21–23, 2025, in Orlando, Florida USA.

This 5-minute inspiring collection of interviews depicts the journeys of several OA members from despair to recovery and serenity. Helpful for newcomers, returning members and long-timers alike. For more information on Overeaters Anonymous, please go to www.oa.org or call the World Service Office at 505-891-2664.

Listen to this compelling and moving story from OA member Matt S., who was the banquet keynote speaker at the 2015 World Service Business Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 27 – May 2, 2015.

In honor of Unity Day, the last Saturday of February at 11:30 a.m. PST, we now offer this podcast covering the topic of Unity. Here is a link to the script in case you would like to read it or translate the podcast. The literature referred to in the podcast is as follows:

• Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, First Edition, p. 107
• A Common Solution: Diversity and Recovery, p. 8 and p.2
• Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, First Edition, p. 110
• OA Inc. Bylaws, Subpart B, Article V
• Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, First Edition, p. 117

Bariatric Surgery: Identify don't compare She had surgery after a ten-year relapse. She never stopped going to meetings but kept quiet about the surgery to avoid judgments. Surgery is not the easier softer way. In reaching out she helps herself and possibly someone else. 100 lb. weight loss After a certain point she stopped weighing: "If I'm going to die I can eat and die happy". Literature from a co-worker led her to finding hope at her first meeting. Willing to let go of the food she followed her sponsor's directions to call three people a day. Step work addresses the emotions underneath cravings. There is no one way to work the program.

Health Issues: This speaker was able to see how handling her health issue and working her program had similarities. LGBTQ: Coming out in OA in the late 1970s and starting an LGBTQ meeting focused on the Steps and Traditions was the start of years in recovery.

English as Second Language - Literature in his language was so important to him when he came into program and learned about OA. Young Person – She found a healthy connection among her body, soul and spirit and has integrity with herself. She no longer has to be in control of everything.

Men in OA - "I have met the enemy and it is me." – A journey to surrender and acceptance and long-term abstinence as a man in OA. Non-traditional HP –In his journey through the Steps, he found conscience and a small quiet voice in his head led him to good orderly direction and the God of his understanding.