OA San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley Intergroup of Overeaters Anonymous serves Fresno, Visalia, and Surrounding Areas. 

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Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women from all walks of life who meet in order to help solve a common problem - compulsive overeating, which includes obesity, anorexia, and bulimia. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively. ​Please read "Our Invitation to You", check out our website, attend a meeting, or call for more information. Whatever your problem with food, OA welcomes you.

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OA Related Announcements

R2 Convention "Recovery: Putting the Pieces Together" is coming July 7-9 in Costa Mesa, CA! It will be fully hybrid as well as live translation between Spanish and English! In-person registration is $75, Zoom only is $35. Here's the link to register and more details: https://www.oar2.org/upcoming-convention.html
​English Flyer | Spanish Flyer

​Have a look Dear Abby column from April 29 - #overeatersanonymous is mentioned as an excellent source for overcoming overeating to mask emotional pain, which was induced by trauma for one reader.  https://www.uexpress.com/life/dearabby/2023/04/29

Social Media

• ​OA Porterville has a Facebook page
  https://www.facebook.com/OAPorterville/
• Region 2 also has a Facebook page!
  ​https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091772284655

Quick FAQs:
These are pages from service bodies so they do not break any traditions within OA. Liking a page is anonymous to the public. Only the page administrators can see who likes it. Likes and Sharing are different and are handled on the side of individual follower Facebook accounts. In order to maintain anonymity, members can:

• Mark their own account as private, meaning no posts are "public"
• Mark their shared posts to friends only, or for their own eyes only
• There are ways to privatize likes and shares based on page "category"
• Members can (for individual posts) mark for friends only, disclude certain friends and allow certain friends to see their shares; drilling down to individuals

Meeting Updates - Monday 4:30 pm is changing their Zoom link and passcode effective March 6th; and, Sat 10:30 am is back in their original meeting room.

Literature News - OA 12&12, Voices of Recovery, and OA 3rd edition available in various formats
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IG Meeting Update - Intergroup meeting has a new date and time. It's now the 1st Saturday of the month at 8:30 am. It is still on Zoom