CCEA 12 Traditions
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon CCEA unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for CCEA membership is a desire to stop compulsively eating.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or CCEA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the compulsive eater who still suffers.
6. A CCEA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the CCEA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every CCEA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Chronic Compulsive Eaters Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. CCEA as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Chronic Compulsive Eaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the CCEA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, film, tv and other public media of communication.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.