If ABA Stopped Tomorrow, Where Would You Go? We have something important to share about ABA. Right now, most of what’s happening in ABA is being decided without much input from members because people aren’t showing up or speaking up. At the same time, we’re not covering costs through 7th tradition, so how we move forward matters. We’re putting together two ABA Community Conversations, which are open spaces for members to share what’s working, what’s not, and what we’d like to
We, the Board, wanted to reach out to the Fellowship to talk about the purpose of General Service Representatives (GSRs) and why they are so important. First, GSRs provide an essential service to the meetings and groups of ABA.
It was decided between the GSR members that we would embark on an inventory process because we had repeated questions arising about whether we (as GSR’s) still had value and whether the GSR was still relevant. We also were questioning whether we were helping the still suffering ABA members (Tradition 5) and how we could go about ensuring this was happening.
The future of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous depends upon maintaining our unity through the lively operation of a service structure that allows the collective voice of ABA members worldwide to guide and direct our principal service board, the General Service
Association of ABA. In practical terms, this requires the election of General Service Representatives by all active ABA Groups and their participation in regular international meetings of these Representatives.
Service helps keep us sober and ABA needs you! What you would need to do: Attend your home group’s business meeting once/month and attend the 60-minute GSR Business meeting once every other month, then bring concerns from your home group to the GSR business meeting and bring information from the GSR business meeting back to your home group. Why this is important: As a General Service Representative or G.S.R., you are linking your home group with the whole of ABA. You help mak
‘Wellness” is a controversial word in the health industry. We find this struggle to be a common experience among numerous members in the rooms of ABA; Many of us have gone to extreme measures in the pursuit of perceived wellness and perfection.
April 2026 "We gather together for one purpose only: to provide a wellspring of hope for the hopeless” (ABA, pg. 172). This month's theme, Springing into Life , is about the beautiful transformation that happens in recovery as we move towards our healing and freedom. "We gather together for one purpose only: to provide a well spring of hope for the hopeless” (ABA, pg. 172). What a powerful quote within our beloved ABA text, which emphasizes just how much of our wellness
Commitment and love are powerful experiences on their own, but when the two are combined something remarkable happens. This was not an overnight matter as many of us struggled for years with unbearable internal pressure. Our perfectionism led to distorted ideas as to what love and commitment were about. We could not live with these impossible standards and so we found a way out. Commitments then became painful reminders and we sought to escape them. Many of us doubted our
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