Tools of Recovery

Wow! What is it about using The OA Tools of Recovery?

This week I saw 2 unwanted pounds return. Earlier this year I lost 5 pounds and here they were – coming back! That scared me into action. I made a commitment to myself to report by email to my sponsor what I had eaten during the day. That could have been just another hollow pep talk. But I followed through on my commitment and have sent my food report to my sponsor two nights in a row now.

That was using two of The Tools – Sponsorship and Writing – and also the spiritual principles of Honesty and Humility. This action is generating a more healthy and honest relationship with food. It feels very good.

When I’m sharing my food only with my Higher Power, it can morph right into my “being” the HP and so I’m sharing my food with only myself. Not a formula for a spiritual recovery program, not a formula for freedom from bondage to my substances.

Thank You, OA and HP, for giving me sanity. It’s a wonderful state of mind and state of being.

By OA member Angie C.