OA Meeting Summary

Over the weekend, I attended an Overeaters Anonymous meeting at the Birmingham Unitarian Church in Bloomfield Hills. This meeting was open to OA members and non-OA visitors. Each meeting is composed with special topics such as, a book study, lifeline, speaker, or newcomer’s stories have a defined topic of discussion. However, these meeting have certain bylaws that are strictly followed, which is the only requirement for OA membership and that is the desire to stop eating compulsively. Each attending member is asked to respect the meeting’s group conscience and give a voice to any person who has the desire to stop their addiction of overeating.

Overeater Anonymous (OA) is a support group for individuals who have problems related to food such as compulsive overeater, binge eating disorder, bulimics and anorexics. The meeting was located at the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin at 133 West 46th Street, NYC on Friday at 6pm. The meetings are open to anyone who wants to obtain more information about the OA support group and/or ways to deal with overeating. The meeting was more lecture-based as it attempts to teach the individuals ways to deal with their compulsive disorder. The OA meeting is a non-profit support group collecting any contributions that that the group can make to fund its meetings.

These meetings were popularly called or criticized as “90-day meetings”” (FA-facts, n.d.). OA meeting had grown in multiple states in U.S and Germany. In 1998, a small group gathered and discuss the possibility of establishing a separate program and “Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous” was legally incorporated in 1998. FA had been grown for several years and now the meetings held in the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, and England. “According to the 2009 census, total FA membership is just over 4,000” (FA-Facts, n.d.). Any gender, any age, and any weight range can join FA if individuals are having trouble controlling the way to eat. The goal of FA is to help one another recover from addiction through shared experience and mutual support. It also teaches how to maintain the health, and change attitudes and behaviors through admitted individuals are powerless over food, turn the will and lives over to the care

My first experience at an alcoholics anonymous meeting was very interesting and in a way uplifting. At All Saints Lutheran Church the home group called “The Young People’s Group” there were people who had come from all walks of life. The group meeting that I thought would have been rather small slowly became larger and larger over the course of the night. I was unaware that the AA meetings had been setup with a set of codes or rules for those who struggle every day to fight this addiction. They allowed people who were new or if it was their first meeting to introduce themselves and tell their story to the fight of addiction related to alcohol. I was really impressed with the fact that the AA groups have an awards system for reaching

Again, overeaters is another program that consists of twelve steps which very similar to those of alcoholics anonymous. There was also a leader who asked everyone’s name and reason for attending the meeting. Some people wanted to participate in the meeting and others just wanted to be there to listen and for support. A couple individuals shared very

When I arrived they had coffee and refreshments open to anyone which i found thoughtful and a good way to get people talking. I saw mainly people with families there who seemed to be going for support. I was still a little apprehensive going by myself as a student and at the time did not feel open to sharing. A man came to the front and stated he is the speaker for this meeting and welcomed us to an open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. The meeting began with a moment of silence for those who are sick and a prayer. After the prayer the speaker spoke

Provide a brief description of each of the meetings (how many people, set up of room, who was in charge, did everyone talk, how was meeting run, was it educational or support?)

In our Western society, we have several different types of eating dysfunction, all of which are unique and tragic in their own right. Despite their individuality, however, they all have several overlapping symptoms that are key to their classification and severity. For Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED), one of the core features is binge eating, which can be defined objectively by number of calories eaten in a given time or subjectively by the feelings of the binger. Binge eating has many different aspects that are of interest to scientists and clinicians alike. One of those interests has to do with the reduction of this symptom among populations being treated for their respective disorder. Because both

For a psychoeducational group on aging, a comfortable and light rapport should exist between the co-leaders (Corey, 2010). This will not only put the members at ease, but will make for a more successful session for the co-leaders as they can bounce the concerns and ideas they may have off of each other before and after each session. Additionally, it would likely be easier for members to trust and confide in

The professional meeting I attended was in Bower Thompson Student Union, Lenhart Grand Ballroom in Bowling Green State University on November 4th, 2016. The meeting or webinar I attend was from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. The title of the meeting was Meeting the Challenge: Hunger, Food, and Health Initiatives. The speaker of the meeting was Colleen Spees who is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (FAND) and she also has a Philosophæ Doctor degree (PhD).

Members Present: Mr. Bill Bowen, Chairman; Mr. Baxter Rice Vice-Chair, Mr. Buzz Breedlove Board, Secretary, Mr. David Clisham, BG James Gabrielli, MG David Baldwin, Mr. Steve Samuels, Mr. Sedrick Tydus, and Mr. Joe Wire. Members. Members Absent: VADM Jody Breckenridge. Staff: LTC Richard Wallis, Superintendent; Mrs. Rachel Mahlke, Mr. Luis Garza, Mrs. Johnna Grell, SFC Rodrigo Leanos, Mrs. Estephanie Fuentes, Mr. Salvatore Siino, MAJ Pernell Johnson, Mrs. Sahiry Ireland, Mr. Sean Moler, and Mrs. Cesley Frost. Public: Mr. Brandon Hardin, LTC Joel Armstrong, Mrs. Soundra Leek, and Mr. Arnold Grisham. Cadets: Franki Magaña, Verania Amaton, and Gerald Liddle.

Furthermore, my visit to the open Alcoholic anonymous group was very informed and it provided me an understanding and knowledge on this specific population. It provided me an opportunity to understand the process of a group meeting. The impression I had when I left was that even though these people were affected by alcoholic, they are hopefully and determined to overcome this challenge in their life.

I choose to attend an Al-non meeting, and I enjoyed this experience the best. I did not know what to expect going in, but was put at ease from the kindness shown by the people. This was an opening meeting and open discussion. This group was made up of mostly middle age upper class females, with one couple. They started the meeting with some group business and announcements, after that I thought I was in a AA meeting, The topic was on the holidays and how to cope. When people talked about being in recovery, they were speaking about themselves. I did join in on the discussion and stayed a few minutes after the meeting to ask some questions about the group. I could see myself going back to Al-non for support if I had issues with or was affected by a friend or family member drinking.

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I explained to them the reason why I was there and they were very nice and happy to help me with my assignment. One of them offered me a book named Alcoholics Anonymous, so I do not get lost during the meeting. As they began reading one of the chapters, I could realize that it was not as scary as people often think these meetings are. I believe that people there are really brave just by been there every day and talk about their problems. Personally, I thought the book is very direct and straightforward when assuming that they will always be alcoholics. I was surprise since it is not very common that people accept and talk the ugly truth. It is even hard for me,