A Big Book Awakening workshop
for those with binge eating disorder, anorexia, bulimia, body obsession or anyone who struggles with compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors. Also sometimes referred to as food addiction.
Freedom
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The workshop leaders are abstaining from compulsive over or under eating and compulsive food behaviors while maintaining or working towards a healthy body weight. Would you like to join us ?
Local calling phone numbers from several countries will be offered. If you have a domestic calling plan your home country, you should be able to use these numbers at no additional charge. See the list of countries supported (with home country dial-in numbers) here. |
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Both Men and Women Are Affected
A Commitment to DiversityWhatever problem you may have with eating, you are welcome at this workshop meeting; regardless of race, creed, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, cross addiction, membership in any recovery program, or any other trait. All are welcome.
The SurveyWe began creating the first workshop to help men and women around the world recover form compulsive eating and body obsession in 2017 when we received a number of replies to our survey. The survey was designed to test the waters about the need for a step-guided workshop on Compulsive Eating within the existing BBA fellowship here in San Diego and around the world. Workshops will be made accessible to both the existing BBA Fellowship members and those new to BBA for the first time.
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Cross Addiction Is CommonMany people - even professionals and experts in recovery- confuse the terms cross addiction with dual diagnosis. Cross addiction is a concept that implies that if a person has developed a severe substance use disorder (the term for addiction) to one substance, that person is at a higher risk to develop a substance use disorder to some other substance. The notion of a dual diagnosis generally refers to an individual who has two very different and unrelated psychological disorders, such as depression and an alcohol use disorder. Compulsive overeaters, compulsive under eaters, and compulsive exercisers have a physical, mental and spiritual malady just like any addict with an alcoholic mind. They are especially vulnerable to disordered eating. Would you like to learn more? Are you clean and sober from drugs and alcohol but spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about, planning or carrying out your eating or exercising? We wish to carry the message of hope that you do not need to live in yet another addiction in order to stay sober; there exists a way to live in sobriety that leans towards freedom from food, exercise and body obsession instead of away from it. Do you believe that God can carry you even further? |
Did you know?Overeaters Anonymous is a 12-step recovery program that uses the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous to help members recover from eating addictions. In OA, you’ll find men and women who are morbidly obese, moderately overweight, and average weight. You'll also find members who are quite slender, athletic, and even underweight. Some are still maintaining periodic control over their eating behavior or slowly losing more and more control each day. Others have hit bottom and are totally unable to control their compulsive eating or compulsive exercising. OA members experience many different patterns of food behaviors. These “symptoms” are as varied as the membership. All are welcome!
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