What Does a 4th Step Have To Do With Not Drinking? When I first came into A.A., I had no understanding of why it was important for me to look at my life and how I had caused hurt & harm to those around me. I had no idea why inventory was a serious thing. …
Hello family, my name is Rick, and I’m an alcoholic. My sobriety date is November 17, 1987. I want to start off with a blanket statement: “The capacity of Alcoholics Anonymous to accept change – has been central to its ability to remain relevant.” So, what does a statement like that really mean? In short …
Recently at my home group in a literature discussion meeting, the chair chose to read from page 95 in the chapter, Working With Others, and started with the first paragraph… “PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail.” They …
I didn’t know when I waked in the doors that you would be teaching me things that would help me deal with the life I had burned to the ground (unbeknownst to me…lol). I thought maybe, just maybe you would help me better understand if I was an alcoholic or not. What I DIDN’T know …
How many of you reading this post came to A.A. to stop drinking? How many of you thought you had a drinking problem and someone told you A.A. could fix it for you? Tonight at my home group, the chair pulled tonights topic from the Big Book page 62… “This is the how and why …
Good morning family, My sponsor and I were talking with one of my sponsees this week on the topic of “old behavior.” If you’ve read page 567 in the 4th edition of the BB, you know that the first paragraph says: “The terms “spiritual experience” and “spiritual awakening” are used many times in this book …
Good morning family, For about half of our A.A. geographic areas in the U.S. and Canada, we are fast approaching election season to elect our trusted servants at the group, district, and area levels. As many of you know, I have been privileged to serve as the Panel 73 Delegate for Area 65 Northeast Texas …
“My willingness was born out of desperation and experience and its biggest impediment has been my defiance found within an alcoholic insanity.” – Rick W. Tonight at my home group, the chair proposed the topic of willingness. She read from the 12&12 in Step 3 and it was a perfect reminder for everyone in the …
This morning, I went to Take the 12 in the “Step Resources” section (https://www.takethe12.org/project/steps/) and reviewed the “Surrender” piece on that page. I’m so grateful that as this Step study was being built, I took the time to identify, in MY experience, what it was that I was going to be called to surrender as …
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