Twelfth Step Within Format for Information Gathering: “Ideas that Work”
| Type of Project | Abstinence – Service |
| Project Name | Staying Abstinent Is the Best Service I Can Do |
| Project Goal | Demonstrate abstinence and recovery from compulsive eating |
| Organizing Service Body | N/A – individual |
| Resources Needed (budget, volunteers, materials, etc.) | Willingness to share the ups and downs of life abstinently with others. Tools of Recovery: plan of eating, sponsorship, meetings, telephone, literature, writing, anonymity, and service. |
| Implementation Process (including length of time for planning and implementation | Share statistics: weight lost/gain, length of sustained abstinence. Show pictures. (Implementation time = a lifetime, one day at a time) |
| Additional Comments (including things of which to be mindful): | People need to see and hear recovery. I always try when I tell my story to share that I have gone through and all that I have because of abstinence, the Tools, and the Steps and Traditions. I share all three levels of recovery: physical, emotional, and spiritual. |
| Results | Results are in God’s hands, but I try to share experience, strength and hope. |
Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. World Service Office
Location: 6075 Zenith Court NE, Rio Rancho, NM 87144, USA
Mailing address: PO Box 44727, Rio Rancho, NM 87174-4727, USA
Telephone: +1 505-891-2664