OA Marin

Virtual Meetings

2020 Marin Retreat

​To the Newcomer

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 and attend a meeting. What ever your problem with food, OA welcomes you.

OA Marin Serves: Marin County, California which includes the cities of Belvedere, Bolinas, Corte Madera, Dillon Beach, Fairfax, Forest Knolls, Greenbrae, Inverness, Kentfield, Lagunitas, Larkspur, Marin City, Marshall, Mill Valley, Nicasio, Novato, Olema, Point Reyes, Ross, San Anselmo, San Geronimo, San Rafael, Sausalito, Stinson Beach, Tiburon, Tomales and Woodacre.

OA World website
OA Region 2 website

Overeaters Anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength, and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively.
There are no dues or fees for members; we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology, or religious doctrine; we take no position on outside issues.
Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors and to carry the message of recovery through the Twelve Steps of OA to those who still suffer.

OA Related Announcements

All OA Marin Face-to-face Meetings have been suspended as of March 16th and have been moved to Virtual Meetings. Please visit our Virtual Meetings page under "Meetings" Tab for further information. 

Statement on Face-to-Face Meetings in Marin County,
Effective Immediately, March 16, until May 3, 2020
The Marin County Public Health office ordered all residents of Marin County to shelter at home for three weeks, beginning March 17, 2020 due to the COVID -19 outbreak.  This Public Health order is in place until April 17, 2020, at 11:59 p.m.
The order directs residents to limit all activity to only the most essential needs, and though we know that your recovery may fall into that category for you, the OA Marin Intergroup strongly suggests you comply with the County directive and temporarily forego face-to-face meetings, as there are numerous alternatives available for recovery.  Any meeting convening during this period will be doing so at their own risk and will be doing so outside the liability coverage of OA Marin IG Insurance.
As such, the Intergroup Conference Call telephone number, (415) 938-9021, is being made available for use during scheduled meeting times.  We suggest you use your current formats and literature in a phone-in version of your usual meeting.  Of course you may choose to make use of alternatives like Zoom for online face to face  meetings if your meeting chooses.  Or you may simply go on hiatus for the time being.
Please ask your meeting site liaison to inform your host location that you plan to return after the shelter time is over.  If any meeting has financial difficulties because of suspended 7th traditions, please contact the Intergroup for assistance.  No suspended meeting need lose their site for lack of funds.
Our First Tradition states, “Our common welfare comes first.” To we who are in recovery, it is a humble, serviceful thing to do as these times require, and to do as our Twelfth Tradition states, to “practice these principles in all our affairs.

Please see attached letter regarding COVID-19 from OA

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East Bay Virtual Meeting Nightly "Breaking the Isolation"

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