Meeting Has Been Cancelled

Hello All, 

The Wednesday night U.A. meeting will be cancelled permanently due to inactivity.

Thank you all for your interest and work within the group.

You may visit the U.A. website to find other meetings near you.

If you are interested in being part of an action group to plan starting a new meeting, you may e-mail underearners.orange@gmail.com

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: September 24, 2014

Here are the highlights from the monthly Wednesday Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Reading:

Big Book pgs 76-83

Step 9:    “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.”

Question of the Day:

Have I put off making any amends and if so, how has this immobilized me and threatened my recovery?

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: September 17, 2014

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights:  September 17, 2014

Here are the highlights from the monthly Wednesday Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Reading:

AA 12 & 12 pg 80-81

Step 8:    “Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.”

Question of the Day:

How can I identify what harm to another person really is, and am I willing to recognize that the greatest harm I may have done is to myself?

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

Tools Of Underearners Anonymous

The Tools of Underearners Anonymous:

What are tools are you currently using?

1. Time Recording – We must be conscious of how we spend our time. We keep a written record to increase awareness and support our focus on goals and the actions required to achieve them.

2. Meetings – We attend UA meetings regularly to share our experience, strength, and hope in order to help ourselves and others recover from underearning.

3. Sponsorship – We actively seek sponsorship with someone who has worked the Twelve Steps in UA and is willing to guide us in our recovery.

4. Possession Consciousness – We routinely discard what no longer serves us in order to foster a belief that life is plentiful and that we will be able to provide ourselves with what we need.

5. Service – Giving service is vital to our recovery. It is through service to others, and to the Fellowship, that we keep what has been so generously given to us.

6. Goals Pages – We set goals for all aspects of our lives, write them down, measure our progress and reward achievement.

7. Action Meetings – We organize action meetings with other UA members to discuss our earning concerns and to generate actions that will bring more prosperity into our lives.

8. Action Partner – We connect regularly with action partners regarding earning concerns in order to provide each other with accountability, continuity, and support.

9. Solvency – We do not debt one day at a time. Debting leads to underearning.

10. Communication – We contact other UA members to seek support, to diminish isolation, and to reinforce our commitments to action.  

11. Literature – We read Twelve-Step literature to strengthen our understanding of compulsive disease and the process of recovery.

12. Savings – Saving money demonstrates faith in the future and acceptance of the fact that money is a tool vital to our prosperous vision. We create and follow a savings plan on whatever scale we are able.

(from www.underearnersanonymous.org)

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

(park in rear of building)

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

Artistic Expression Meeting 8/27/14

Underearners Anonymous may be of help.
Visit our monthly Orange Step Study /Artistic Expression Meeting to work on a creative project.
Bring your writing, poetry, drawings, songs, etc and share on how underearning is affecting your process of creative expression.

When: Wednesday 8/27/14 7:00 PM -8:30 PM
Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location: 1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868
Cross Streets: Town & Country Rd and Main St.
Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)


To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org website.

Ours is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other, that we may solve our common problem and help others to recover from compulsive underearning. 

The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop underearning. There are no dues or fees; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. 

UA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes.
Our primary purpose is to stop compulsive underearning, one day at a time, and to help other underearners do the same.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: August 20, 2014

Here are the highlights from the monthly Wednesday Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Reading: 

Big Book pg 76

AA 12 & 12 pg 63-69

Step 6:    “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”

Question of the Day:

What is the difference between SAYING I am entirely ready to have my defects removed and being entirely ready?

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: August 13, 2014

Here are the highlights from the monthly Wednesday Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees: 5

 Reading:  AA 12 & 12 pg 64-71

Step 5:   " Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."

Question of the Day:

What has the sharing of my inventory taught me about honesty and trust?

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Living With An Underearner? Try U.A. Anon.

Did your underearning begin as a result of living or working with another underearner?

 U.A. Anon is now available to help. 

This is a program to provide support for those living with or affected by an underearner.

If your spouse, parents, co-workers, or even a landlord has underearning behavior that has affected you, there is now a place you can go to get assistance to heal.

Visit www.underearners-anon.com for meetings and details.

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: Aug 6, 2014

Here are the highlights from the monthly Wednesday Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

 Reading:  Big Book 72-75   

Step 5:  " Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."

Question of the Day:

 How Can I Prepare And Become Willing To Share My Inventory With Another Human Being?

How Will I Choose That Person?

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

·        Focus on the benefits that come from sharing.

·        Realize sharing with another is a chance to understand who I am.

·        I can share my inventory with a person of the cloth or a stranger on a bus.

·        Side effects of working my program will be a sudden popping sound – that is my head coming out of my rear end.

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: July 30, 2014

Here are the highlights from the monthly Wednesday Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

 Reading:  AA 12 & 12   

Step 4:  "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

Question of the Day:

 How Can I Take A More Balanced View Of Myself?  Why is That Important

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

·          Remove blame from our speech and thought

·          Observe how I look and sound when I say something healthy.

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Posted by Orange Under

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: July 16, 2014

Here are the highlights from the monthly Wednesday Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees:  4

 Reading:  Big Book   

Step 4:  "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

Question of the Day:

 What actions am I willing to take to overcome procrastination and proceed with my inventory?

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

·         Set up rewards system

·         Have a set amount of time to work on steps.

·         Create a location to focus on recovery.

·         Use timesheets

·         I’m not less than or more than.  I am here.

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Posted by Orange Under

Good Things Report

This blogger reports learning new gifts and talents for cooking as a result of working my program.

Who knew I could make healthier meals by exploring what is available in the cupboard and applying my creative mind and WILLINGNESS to learn and listen to the experience of others.

I have gone on more interviews this week than I have in the last month, and have learned of side jobs from other members which utilize my joys of connecting with children and pets.

I feel hopeful of finding work that will use my gifts and talents.

My household made an extra $120.00 this week by selling unnecessary items.

This is all from resisting the symptoms of idea deflection and time indifference, and using the tools of possession consciousness and communication.

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: July 9, 2014

Here are the highlights from the monthly Wednesday Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees: 5

 Reading:  AA 12 & 12 pg 64-71

Step 4:  "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

Question of the Day:

How can I best approach the daunting task of writing my inventory and make it more manageable and less overwhelming?

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

      ·         Just write

·         Write a letter to my higher power

·         Work a set amount of time each day/ week

·         Bookend  with my sponsor

·         What are my gifts?

·         What has brought me joy?

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope...

The Orange Underearners anonymous group is looking to expand our fellowship through the contributions of existing members to help update our blog.

We are reaching out to Orange County U.A. members to share their experience, strength, and hope around the tools of U.A, working the steps in the program, and how awareness of your symptoms have impacted your life.

The purpose of this exercise is to help each other and especially newcomers come to an understanding of how working the steps and using the tools can change our awareness of our symptoms, issues and concerns as we move toward recovery.

An ideal blog schedule is listed below:

DAY	TOPIC	DESCRIPTION
MON	GOOD THINGS REPORT	What good things are you experiencing today or this week as a result of working your program?
TUES	SYMPTOMS	How has your awareness of the symptoms changed as you work your program?
WED	PROMISES	What do the promises of UA mean to you?
THURS	MEETING HIGHLIGHT	List the question of the day details.
FRI	TOOLS/ STEPS	What does the UA tool / step of ____  mean to you?

Our blog will be updated on the corresponding day with your submissions, so please be sure to submit your writings on the day prior to posting by the cut-off time of 6:00 PM PST.

Please e-mail your submissions to:  underearners.orange@gmail.com

All submissions will of course remain anonymous, citing your city and initials if desired.

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To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

What does the UA tool of meetings mean to me?

This blogger writes:

Meetings mean getting outside of myself to hear another person’s shares and concerns.  Sometimes I wrap myself in isolation and fear, but getting to a meeting and knowing there is another person who shares my experience is relieving.

Meetings are opportunities for me to be present in life and to share on my experiences – to acknowledge my being alive.  I am allowed to be of service to others by acknowledging and receiving their experience, strength, and hope.

Meetings are places where I learn to honor the space and commitments of others and myself.

Being present at a meeting allows me to acknowledge my own experience, strength, and hope.  The disease of underbeing keeps me from recognizing that I have value, too.

Meetings teach me to establish boundaries around my shares and experiences. 

Meetings are a power greater than myself through which I can receive connection with my higher power.  Sometimes, something is said at a meeting that I desperately needed to hear or express.

What do meetings mean to you?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: July 2, 2014

Here are the highlights from the monthly Wednesday Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees: 5

 Reading:  AA 12 & 12 pg 34 - 41

Step 3:  "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God."

Question of the Day:

How can I surrender my life to my higher power and yet have an understanding that the willingness to surrender is a decision I have to make all on my own?

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

·         In the teach a man to fish metaphor, my higher power is the teacher, and recovery is the fish.  I have to be willing to fish.

·         Surrender my false sense of self daily.

·         Common sense and success strategies are examples of my higher power’s will.

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Symptoms Of Underearning

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: June 18, 2014

Here are the highlights from the Wednesday night UA Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees: 5

Book Studied:  Big Book pgs 237, 350, 446

Step 3:  "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God."

Question of the Day:

How will I establish earning guidelines and ask my higher power for the willingness and ability to live within them each day?

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

·         Stop distracting myself from recovery with things I cannot control.

·         Ask Higher Power what my earning plan looks like for today and the power to carry that out.

·         Write out an earning plan

·         Determine my value

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org  website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Posted by Orange Under

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: June 11, 2014

Here are the highlights from the Wednesday night  UA Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees: 4

Book Studied:  Big Book pgs 13, 60-63

Step 3:  "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God."

Question of the Day:

In what ways am I willing to adopt a whole new attitude about savings, prosperity, and spending?

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

·         Higher power is my employer who provides what I need if I keep close and perform his/her work well. (pg 63)

·         I have prosperity through nourishing and displaying my talents and passions in a way that benefits my higher power and fellows.

·         Learn where to set boundaries regarding spending of time, and energy as well as money.

·         My body and life are examples of prosperity.  By nourishing and caring for my body and healthy connections with others, I am making investments in my future.

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the www.underearnersanonymous.org    website.

If you are in the Orange County, CA area, come join us for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd  # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

The Promises of UA

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: June 4, 2014

Here are the highlights from the Wednesday night  UA Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees: 9
Book Studied:  AA 12 & 12 pgs 25-33
Step 2:  "Came To Believe That A Power Greater Than Ourselves Could Restore Us To Sanity"

Question of the Day:
In What Ways Have I Continued To Seek Comfort In Excessive Underbeing Long After It Stopped Working And Began Affecting My Life?

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

• I don't live up to my potential for fear of attention being drawn to me.
• Fear is comfortable - I know what to expect.
• I must give myself permission to get better.
• I have become comfortable with saving others.
• I overwork/ exhaust because no one can tell me what to do now that I'm an adult.

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the underearnersanonymous.org website or come join us for a meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM
Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church
Location: 1111 W Town and Country Rd # 14, Orange, CA 92868 Cross Streets: Town & Country Rd and Main St. Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office. (Park in rear of building)

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: May 21, 2014

Here are the highlights from the Wednesday night  UA Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees: 3

Book Studied:  Big Book  pgs 52-57

Step 2:  "Came To Believe That A Power Greater Than Ourselves Could Restore Us To Sanity"

Question of the Day:

How will I find a power greater than myself, and how will I use that power to help me live a better life without underearning?

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

·         Face denial

·         Thank my higher power daily.

·         Grow where I am and within or around my circumstances.

·         Shape a world of acceptance for myself, fellow underearners, newcomers, and my children.

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the underearnersanonymous.org website or come join us for a meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd  # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: May 14, 2014

Here are the highlights from the Wednesday night  UA Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees: 3

Book Studied:  Big Book  pgs 46-52

Step 2:  "Came To Believe That A Power Greater Than Ourselves Could Restore Us To Sanity"

Question of the Day:

What would I like a higher power to be and do in my life?  (Be Specific and Fearless)

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

·         Learn to increase intuition.

·         Be released from the bondage of self-seeking and self-serving.

·         Ask H.P. for guidance and release from societal stigma surrounding my birth (race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, etc,)

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the underearnersanonymous.org website or come join us for a meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd  # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)

Weekly Orange U.A. Meeting Highlights: May 7, 2014

Here are the highlights from the Wednesday night  UA Step Study meeting at St. Matthews Church in Orange, CA.

Attendees: 3

Book Studied:  Big Book  pgs 37-46

Step 2:  "Came To Believe That A Power Greater Than Ourselves Could Restore Us To Sanity"

Question of the Day:

As I honestly look at my life, how have I acted in a self destructive and irrational manner where earning is concerned?

Here were some reflections this blogger related to:

·         How do I respect myself?

·         How can I respect and love people?

·         How much am I putting an emphasis on others when I need to thrive, too?

What are your thoughts on the question of the day?

To learn more about the U.A. program, visit the underearnersanonymous.org website or come join us for a meeting on Wednesday Nights.

When:  7:00 PM -8:30 PM

Where: St Matthews Ecumenical Church

Location:  1111 W Town and Country Rd  # 14, Orange, CA 92868

Cross Streets:  Town & Country Rd and Main St.

Meeting in the study room adjacent to the business office.

(Park in rear of building)