Can I qualify as a vegan sponsor?

I am a vegan.  When I qualify can I qualify as a Vegan Sponsor?   Can I qualify as a Vegan Sponsor who will only sponsor vegans?

We look to our literature for an answer.  As guardians of our fellowship WSO endorses the principles in our Sponsor Guidelines which identify only four types of CEA-HOW sponsors: food, inventory, step and maintenance.   Our Seven Tools state:  “…qualify as to the length of your abstinence, weight loss, and kind of sponsor that you are (food, inventory, step and /or maintenance), ….”

Our program is meant to be inclusive so although people have different experiences we are asked to be open to sponsoring all who walk through our doors. If we limit our sponsoring by qualifying that we are a vegan, male, female, medical and/or any other type of specialty sponsor we are acting outside the guidelines of Traditions Three and Five by adding a specialty that prevents us from carrying the message of recovery to all in our program.

Questions regarding sponsoring qualifications or sponsoring practices are answered in our Sponsor Guidelines and our book, Sponsoring in Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW.

To share your experience, strength and hope working the CEA-HOW program with specific medical conditions or dietary choices, we suggest you register on the Special Focus Outreach page of our website.