Our General Service Board needs your experience, strength, and wisdom in its efforts to help EDA groups and members carry this message. As we learn and practice careful self-honesty, self-care and self-expression, we gain authenticity, perspective, peace and empowerment.Ĭarrying the message of recovery means helping others find peace and balance. Recovery means rebuilding trust with ourselves, a gradual process that requires much motivation and support. Recovery means gaining or regaining the power to see our options, to make careful choices in our lives. In our eating disorders, we sometimes felt like helpless victims. In EDA, recovery means living without obsessing on food, weight and body image.
EDA endorses sound nutrition and discourages any form of rigidity around food. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food. Diets and weight management techniques do not solve our thinking problems. Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors.
Solutions have to do with recognizing life choices and making them responsibly. In EDA, we try to focus on the solution, not the problem. Our primary purpose is to recover from our eating disorders and to carry this message of recovery to others with eating disorders. We neither endorse nor oppose any causes. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) offers this definition: As an eating disorder, anorexia is defined as the compulsive avoidance of food. EDA does not wish to engage in any controversy. We are self-supporting through our own contributions.ĮDA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution. There are no dues or fees for EDA membership. The only requirement for membership is a desire to recover from an eating disorder. In EDA, we help one another identify and claim milestones of recovery. People can and do fully recover from having an eating disorder. Please find the latest EDA News and Announcements here.Įating Disorders Anonymous (EDA) is a fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from their eating disorders.