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| W.A. World Service Organization Newsletter |
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| Living in Balance E-Newsetter | April 2011 |
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Greetings!
We hope this correspondence finds you feeling good and living in the now and happy with your many blessings!
SAVE THE DATE! W.A. 2011 World Conference this October in Austin, Texas.
W.A. is holding its first annual Fundraising Campaign. Please spread the word to members in your groups. Details below.
W.A. is looking for a member to fill the volunteer Communications role. See the job definition below.
Audio tapes are available online for our 2010 W.A. Conference.
Sincerely, Michele S., Outreach Coordinator
Workaholics Anonymous
Living in Balance, the WA print newsletter, needs your stories; finding WA, struggles and your progress in recovery. Please send contributions to: [email protected]. |
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Crazy Thinking!
"Today we are so busy even our stomachs multi-task. Multi-tasking for multi-symptoms - acid indigestion, gas pressure, bloating and discomfort and heartburn. Fast relief for the way we live." Rolaids Ad
This made me laugh and shake my head. It is amazing what we can do to ourselves physically. Our bodies are SCREAMING at us to stop and/or slow down and all we want to do is medicate and shut it up so we can keep going. Our culture's crazy
thinking shapes the way we live. It wasn't until I was in recovery that I realized this thinking was nuts! But "Pre W.A." I totally bought into this mentality. By working the 12 steps and using the tools in W.A. my sanity has returned and I don't have to "buy into" this thinking AND I have healthy boundaries with others around me that do. I pay attention and listen to when my body is yelling at me :)
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W.A. 2011 Fundraiser
Carrying The Message
In our work-drenched society, amazingly few people have heard of us, other than ourselves. This is the challenge: to get the word out and to encourage meeting formation so the feelings of isolation, stress and helplessness can be healed. Workaholism is treated as a joke in our society and is not understood or appreciated as a serious addiction both in the form of over-working and work anorexia.
Passing The Basket If you have sought and found recovery through our program, please contribute to our very first fund raising effort dedicated to letting people know that help is available. Your donation will help:
- Create public service announcements for radio and TV (goal $ 3000.)
- Provide our books as part of our "starter kits" (goal $ 2000.)
- Create a presence at other 12 Step Conferences to raise awareness of W.A. (goal $ 3000.)
- Create scholarships to help others to attend our annual conferences.
(goal $ 2000.) - Provide face-to-face mentoring to struggling meetings (goal $ 3000.)
We cannot do these things without your help! Your donations to W.A., large or small, offer the opportunity for service, a cornerstone of the 12 Step Programs. You can mail your check or use a credit card on our website: workaholics-anonymous.org. Donations are tax-deductible and a receipt will be provided. Please see our website for more on new plans for outreach.
Please make checks payable and send to: Workaholics Anonymous World Service Office (W.A.W.S.O.) - PO Box 289 Menlo Park, California, 94026, USA.
"Our primary purpose is to stop working compulsively and to carry the message of recovery to workaholics who still suffer."
- from The Preamble of Workaholics Anonymous
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2011 W.A. World Conference in Austin, Texas!
Sponsorship & Service - How it Works
This year, the WA World Service Conference will be held Friday, October 28th through Sunday, October 30th, 2011 in Wimberley, Texas at the 7A Resort, with an optional Pre-Conference day on Thursday, October 27th. For more information see the 2011 Conference Flyer. |
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2010 W.A. World Conference Audio Tapes Online!
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W. A. Volunteer Needed!
The current Communications Coordinator of WA needs to retire from this service for personal reasons. WA needs someone to take his place. The tasks are not large, but are essential in dealing with first and tentative inquiries from sufferers from compulsive working (and aversion).
The duties consist of the following: (1) retrieving phone messages from our answering service and responding to requests, 1 to 4 per week; (2) responding to incoming email communications 3 to 5 per week; (3) entering these contacts into our database. The person who has these duties is willing to stay on to train a new person for as long as it takes. This function is currently also a Board position, which involves attending monthly telephonic Board meetings and expense-paid attendance at our annual Conferences. A person who assumes these duties needs to be a seasoned WA member with basic knowledge and allegiance to the 12 Step concepts. This is a great opportunity for Service and a way to influence the growth of WA. If you are interested and want to know more about this position, please contact
[email protected]
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Purchase Our Books Online!
The Book Of Discovery
 A guide to the 12 Steps
The Workaholics Anonymous Book of Discovery is a guide that provides step instruction, questions, activities, and stories-all with room to write and reflect as necessary, in a large spiral-bound, three-hole punch volume. The book is designed to lay completely flat so as to be easily used for writing as well as for protective storing in a three-ring notebook of your choice with other loose or extra pages if desired. This workbook can be used alone, with a sponsor or used with a group in a meeting format.
Click here for online purchase
You can also purchase through the mail. Price: $25. Plus $4.95 shipping and handling anywhere in the US. Send your check to WSO Web Payment Center, PO Box 56416, Portland, OR, 97238.
The Book of Discovery
W.A.'s first publication and the main text. Valuable information for
all recovering workaholics; history, stories, guidance in working the steps and tools to help you with your recovery program!
Click here for online purchase
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