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The Sacramento Valley Intergroup of Overeaters Anonymous (SVIOA) serves the greater Sacramento Valley and Sierra Foothills, including Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Sutter, Stanislaus, Yolo, and Yuba counties. 

​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.

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To the Newcomer

New to OA? Attend our meeting specifically for newcomers on Sundays, 3:30 pm. How do I start? Please read "Our Invitation to You," browse our website and attend a Local Meeting. What ever your problem with food, OA welcomes you. If you would like to learn more about OA and other meetings, visit OA's World Service Website - How Do I Start.

UPCOMING EVENTS​​​

• ​Jan. 30, 2021, Saturday, 6:30-8 pm Pacific Time - Sacramento Valley Intergroup presents OA 61st Birthday.
• Feb. 9, 2021, Tuesday, 7 pm Pacific - Sacramento Valley Intergroup Meeting. All members of OA are welcome.
• Feb. 27, Saturday, 1 -2:30 pm Pacific - Sacramento Valley Intergroup presents “Unity Day”.
  

 ​More Events

​​IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Two recordings from the OA Founder Roxanne S. now are available at OA.org. In "Reflections: A Visit with OA’s Founder,” Rozzane S. opens up about her life and journey toward becoming the founder of the Fellowship of Overeaters Anonymous, chronicling how she’s overseen the spread of the OA message around the world. She speaks about the inauspicious yet aspirational beginnings of OA. 
  “And Now a Word from Our Founder” is a compilation of five keynote speeches that she was asked to present to World Service Business Conference delegates in 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2001. With her characteristic humor and candid humility, she speaks on such subjects as the origins of OA’s Traditions, the importance of principles before personalities, and complicated issues of empathy and sacrifice.
• OA.org has released two new pamphlets: Introducing "In OA, Recovery is Possible: About Compulsive Eating and the OA Program of Recovery" and "Working the Program - A Lifetime of Abstinence: One Day at a Time". These pamphlets combine and replace several prior pamphlets.
  
• New Speaker Recordings: Two speakers from the Jan. 1 SVIOA New Year, New You IV event.
• Want to know more about how to run an OA meeting on Zoom? Check out “How to Use Zoom: A ‘Zoomie’ Handbook” published by the Sacramento Valley Intergroup.
• New Speaker Recordings: Two speakers from the Dec. 12 SVIOA Twelfth Step Within Day event.
• Are you a new sponsor? Are you new to OA and want to know more about what a sponsor does? Nervous about getting started? The new SVIOA Sponsorship Resources pamphlet will show you where to find some great tools to help you. And don’t forget to check out our “Sponsorship: A Getting Started Guide” for more tips.
• ​​Want to start a new Zoom meeting? SVIOA has a Zoom account available for use. For further information or help setting it up, contact Phil K at phil@pkemp.com​
• ​​Read The Valley Voice, SVIOA’s monthly newsletter
• ​How to make a Meeting Update​

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PLEASE REMEMBER OUR 7TH TRADITION
OA is self-supporting through our own contributions. While telephone and virtual meetings may have few if any direct expenses, our 7th Tradition reminds us of the importance of supporting our Fellowship as a whole. Intergroup, Region 2, and the World Service Office needs our support to help carry the message to other compulsive overeaters. For further information about meetings and the 7th Tradition or to make a donation, go here.