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meetings summer 2003
Eating Addictions Anonymous
- The SANE FellowshipTM -
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Spiritual Surrender - Absolute Commitment - Necessary Action - Emotional Healing
Eating Addictions Anonymous is a 12 step recovery program for men and women recovering from all forms of eating and body image addiction.We Do Recover
REGISTERED EAA MEETINGS
USA
Revised: SUMMER 2003Area Service Committees: Please make sure your meetings are registered, and all information is current.
Meetings: Please register with your ASCFor help starting a meeting in any area not listed below send e-mail to: 12n12@eatingaddictionsanonymous.org
MEETINGS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY STATE:
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Chesapeake and Potomac Region; Ground Zero Area
(CPREAA - GZAEAA)
Coming soon:
new SUNDAY afternoon meeting
Please call 202 882-6528 for information.
KENTUCKY
NO CURRENT MEETINGS IN KY
MARYLAND Silver Spring meetings
Chesapeake and Potomac Region; Spring to Life Area
(CPREAA - STLAEAA)FRIDAY at 7:00 PM - Go home SANE! (SANE Approach basics meeting O,D)
Holy Cross Hospital
1500 Forest Glen Road
Silver Spring, MD
Private Dining Rooms 1 & 2
Ground FloorContact #: (202) 882-6528 or (301) 526-6746
Metro Accessible: Forest Glen Station; RED LINE1/3 mi from hospital
Directions to Holy Cross
Handicapped AccessibleSATURDAY at 7:00 PM - Saturday Night Alive ( Beginner's/Literature study O,D)
Holy Cross Hospital
1500 Forest Glen Road
Silver Spring, MD
Private Dining Room 1&2
Second Floor
Contact #: (202)882-6528 or (301) 526-6746
Metro Accessible: Forest Glen Station; RED LINE1/3 mi from hospital
Directions to Holy Cross
Handicapped Accessible
MASSACHUSETTS
WEDNESDAY: noon to 1pm
Quaker Meeting House (Cape Cod)
Route 28A
West Falmouth, MA
Contact: Angela before attending meeting for the first time.
INTERNATIONAL
MEXICO Las Reuniones en Mexico, D.F. son en Espanol. (Meetings in Mexico City are in Spanish.)LUNES y JUEVES desde 16:30 hasta las 18:00 horas
Acueducto Rio Hondo
Frente de #27 Al lado de Hospital St. Teresa
Col. Virreyes, Lomas de Chapultapec
Mexico City, MexicoNumero y Nombre de Contacto: 52 (del pais) - 55 (de la ciudad) - 5245-8322 ext. 502: Ed L. o Jeanette R.
For more information call: (202) 882-6528 between 9.00 am and 6.00 pm or send us E-mail at: eaagso@yahoo.com Information on meetings in other areas will be added as it is received.
We are interested in starting meetings in all areas. If you would be willing to do the service of helping to start a meeting, we would love to help. If you have started a meeting anywhere, please send your meeting information to us as soon as possible, and we will list your group on this site. Remember: Service is Healing.
Please contact us if you're interested. We will help!
The Fellowship of Eating Addictions Anonymous
EAA is a fellowship of people recovering from all aspects of eating addiction and body obsession. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop abusing food and our bodies. We believe that our disease manifests itself in a variety of ways including: bingeing, purging, grazing, starving, obsession with: our bodies, weight, diet, muscular definition, etc. In our experience what, how, how much or how little you eat is irrelevant to the disease progression. What is important is that we have a warped relationship to food, and to our bodies.
Since food is but a symptom , we do not believe lasting recovery can be based on any particular plan of eating. It willonly be achieved by a thoroughworking of the 12 steps. The honesty we develop through working the steps leads each of us to a manner of living, eating and relating to our bodies that allows us to be fully participating members of society. Most of us suffer from self hate, and find there is little support for a healthy relationship with our bodies or with food in the wider world. In EAA we uncover the tools to deal with both our addiction as well as the unhealthy messages we may receive about food and appearance. Our disease kills more people than any other addiction, due to its connection to various serious diseases. It handicaps many others emotionally, spiritually, and physically. We believe that for us food is a drug, our obsessions are manifestations of addiction, that our disease is a life and death issue.
We are addicts.
In EAA, we believe we are addicts, and that like all addicts, we are powerless over our addiction. Our obsessive behaviors concerning food and our bodies are the ways we use to feel numb, comforted, high or in control. Though we prefer to deny it, we are no different or better than other drug addicts. Our disease, may be more subtle and and it is often sanctioned by society. It is, however, a deadly addiction. Members of our fellowship focus on staying out of our old destructive patterns. We work at developing a healthy conception of our appearance. On our own this is impossible, since many of us are full of self hate, and excuses. With the help of the fellowship we find the spiritual growth and emotional healing that facilitates these changes. In EAA the definition of clean food is an individual issue - we are individuals, and what works for some, may not work well for others. However, in recovery we do not binge, purge, starve, or graze.We do not restrict or feast at mealtimes.We adopt a proactive approach, going to whatever lengths we must to find recovery, then we cling to it doggedly. Recovery does happen, but it doesn't happen by accident. If we want to be free from a lifetime of self destruction, we must surrender to deep internal change. With the help of our network, we definine a clear, healthy bottom line set of behaviors conducive to maintaining our recovery. We share the nature of this spiritual plan with others we trust as a way of developing an honest relationship with ourselves, our eating, and with others. Surrender doesn't come naturally to addicts, but relax, no one will tell you what you have to do. We are here to offer you the way out that we have found.
A special welcome to men.
We want to let men know that this program is for them as well as for women. Most resources available for eating disorder recovery, be they weight loss centers, or treatment facilities, assume their clients will be female. We, however, are aware that many men suffer from eating disorders in all forms, and struggle to identify with, or feel comfortable in those other settings. Since obesity linked diseases kill a very large number of men each year, we know that men can benefit from recovery from overeating. A growing number of men are beginning to be more open about their struggles with bulimia, anorexia, and body image distortions. There is still a lot of denial in our society of the severity of the health issue of men's eating addictions, and men's recovery resources still lag far behind women's. We want you to know that men are especially welcome in our fellowship. We will not ignore your issues.
We encourage and support the formation of men's EAA meetings . We strive to create an environment in our fellowship that is comfortable for all. Our purpose is to promote and support lifelong recovery. We do not focus on complaining, wallowing in our disease, or blaming others for our addiction. We aren't concerned about how glamorous we will look when the diet is over. We're here to open the door to recovery for all who wish to enter. Whatever your background, whatever the nature of your struggle with eating, you will be welcome here.
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