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This is the official website of Emotions Anonymous International (EAI).

EAI is a nonprofit organization that facilitates the Emotions Anonymous (EA) 12-Step Program of recovery. EA supports individuals with emotional difficulties in their efforts to live more manageable lives. The program's foundational components include the 12 Steps, 12 Traditions, 12 Helpful Concepts, 12 Just for Todays, 12 Promises, 12 Slogans, and 12 Principles, which can be found here.

The International Service Center (ISC) is the administrative arm of EAI; the EAI Board of Trustees is made up of members from across the world. EA-approved literature can be purchased here and includes pamphlets that address different emotions, workbooks, educational books, and daily affirmation-readers. The ISC and the Board of Trustees develops and approves materials with input from EA members.

EAI is solely supported by member and group contributions and sales. We continue to need your support!
Please click here to make a contribution.

If you or someone you know is experiencing a live-threatening mental health crisis, consider dialing 911 
or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

We know this is a difficult time for everyone and are doing our best to shift EAI operations to accommodate the current world situation. Many groups have switched to remote meetings and many new meetings have begun. Please check the meeting information page for more information on remotely accessible meetings. If you have not signed up to receive emails from EAI, please click here to do so. The EAI office is open and orders are being processed. Please keep in mind, due to COVID-19 and employee availability, there may be temporary delays to some mail delivery.  We ship from the office as quickly as we can but have no control over the delivery schedule of USPS. If you would like to pay for faster shipping, please contact our office to place your order over the phone. Currently we are not allowing anyone other than staff in the EAI office due to COVID-19. We can bring orders down to you. Please allow at least 24 hours advanced notice so we can have your order ready to go at time of pick up. We are all in this together and this too shall pass. 

Strength & Hope

EAI's newsletter, Strength & Hope is now available to download onto eReaders.

Click here to go to EAI's eReader Online Store

 

2021 New & Revised Literature

  • Sponsorship (#25)
  • Loneliness (#42)
  • Acceptance (#90)

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Please Consider Making a Contribution!

EA groups are self-supporting and all groups and individuals financially support the EAI office, which manages the literature and administrative work for EA as a whole. Without support from members, EAI staff would not be available to support the many groups and members who have questions, make suggestions, or want to purchase EA materials. Thank you to each individual and group for your contributions.

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Find an EA Meeting

A key to emotional well-being is to stay active with your group. If there are no groups in your area or work in your schedule, please consider starting one! Click here to find out more.

 

Click here to search for a FACE-to-FACE meeting — in the United States.

Click here to search for a FACE-to-FACE meeting — outside the United States.

Click here to search for a REMOTE meeting — Accessible to anyone, anywhere by phone, online, Zoom, Skype, and other methods!

 

Click here to access the REMOTE meetings list — Accessible to anyone, anywhere (regardless of the pandemic) by phone, computer, or by an app on a smartphone or tablet.

Click here to access the REMOTE meetings list due to the pandemic but may resume meeting in person when it is safe to do so — Accessible to anyone, anywhere by phone, computer, or by an app on a smartphone or tablet.

Monthly Reflections on the 12 Steps from EAI Board

STEP 6: WERE ENTIRELY READY TO HAVE GOD REMOVE ALL THESE DEFECTS OF CHARACTER.

"The principle embodied in step 6 is willingness. I had to be willing to do the things that worked for the thousands/millions of people before me.

A clergyman is quoted, in the AA 12/12, the book entitled Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions, as saying this is the step that separates the men from the boys. He goes on to say that we should aim for perfection in overcoming our defects of character. We are not perfect beings, but we should aim for perfection in this area of our lives.

According to him, it is not ok to say or to keep saying, "I'm working on that." For example, gossiping. Just don't gossip and remove ourselves from the gossip circles, is the gist of what I get from him. And rightly so. I can say I am working on a defect for the rest of my life and my life never changes. And notice, the step says ALL these defects of character; not some.

I didn't come to EA to have to continue struggling. I wanted and want real change. I want the promises that I can be happy, joyous, and free. And I am. Just for today. But, if I do tomorrow what I am doing today, I will get to keep my happiness, joy, and freedom. My Akron, Ohio oldtimers always say, "This is a program of action!" I've also heard an AA person say, "We have to act our way into good thinking, we can't think our way into good action, in fact, our best thinking landed us in Emotions Anonymous", he said Alcoholics Anonymous, but I'm just translating for us.

The promises are the only reason I'm here. And why I keep coming back.

If and when I want to simply socialize I go to social clubs, not Emotions Anonymous meetings. As I am getting ready to leave my place headed to an Emotions Anonymous meeting, I pray. My prayer is that the people, who are in EA to socialize, are not in attendance. Their negative energy is not conducive for the recovery an EA meeting provides to those who are willing to work the program nor is it auspicious for the hope that the newcomer is seeking. I don't want the newcomer to be amongst the same negativity that he/she is trying to escape. Our tradition 3 states that the only requirement for membership is a desire to become well emotionally." — Derita P., EAI Trustee