WelcomeWelcome to the Big Book Awakening website for those with binge eating disorder, anorexia, bulimia, body obsession or anyone who struggles with compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors, often brought about by unresolved trauma.
This website aims to provide you with access to the materials and resources for a deeper, more effective 12-Step program of recovery. Members of all 12-Step fellowships (or none) are welcome here. If you are a person seeking freedom from food/eating problems but despite working Traditional methods, you are still struggling, we believe BBA can help take you further...all the way to a Solution and freedom. Using the guidance of the BBA, we replace alcohol and drinking words with food and eating words to uncover how Compulsive Eating, in all its forms, is alcoholic in nature. And like alcoholism, the dis-ease of disordered eating is often rooted in unresolved fear, anxiety and residual trauma. The solution that worked for the first 100 men and women of the Big Book to enable them to recover from alcoholism miraculously works for Compulsive Eaters, too. That's why the Big Book is Conference-Approved Literature in Overeaters Anonymous. Let us show you how to become recovered from a hopeless state of mind and body in our 23 week workshop book study.
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Members in 12-step programs have experienced various ways of being sponsored and going through the steps. This lack of consistency in exactly how to work the 12 Steps resulted in a varied and sometimes uneven quality of our recovery. BBA was created to help members have a consistent, reliable method of going through the steps that resulted in getting abstinent and free, for good and for all. We found the Solution to our common problem lay before us in the often intricate text of the Big Book. The language was dated and sometimes mystified us. The Promises eluded us...Until now.
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How does it work?
The Big Book Awakening step-study method (with workbook) walks us through the Big Book line by line, decoding the sometimes hard-to-understand language in a way anyone can understand, today, in our modern life. This clear-cut method not only moves from the traditional method of telling us what to do, to the more comprehensive act of showing us what to do, but it also enables us to have a deep and more effective spiritual experience through the steps as outlined in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Big Book Awakening, or BBA, was created to provide a reliable, consistent and clearly understood method to take either a single member or a committed group of people through the 12 Steps as outlined in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, so that anyone who seeks this Solution can access it. Additionally, BBA was published in the workbook format to support and encourage the 12th step, of one member working with another to carry the Solution. Getting started will require that you find someone who has already done the work, to take you through the work either one-on-one, or you can enroll in an upcoming online workshop.
How can I learn more?
We invite you to attend one of our open meetings. All meeting and workshops are free to attend, though donations to cover operating expenses are sometimes collected through our 7th Tradition. Your anonymity is protected at all times.
People of all genders, race, age and walks of life 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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Anyone with a desire to stop eating compulsively is welcome.
It's free to join. |