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The Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity.
2. 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.
3. The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or OA
as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose- to carry its message to the compulsive
overeater who still suffers.
6. 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.
7. Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service
centers may employ special workers.
9. OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or
committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name
ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. 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.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all the Traditions, ever reminding us to
place principles before personalities.
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