June 4, 2024
Understanding Steps Six and Seven Since the day I entered the AA program, I have had an insatiable appetite for learning all I could about the […]
March 4, 2024
Examine My Motives for All That I Do If someone were to ask me what brought me to the doors of Alcoholics Anonymous, my answer would […]
January 22, 2024
No One Can Be Turned Away The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking (Tradition Three 12&12). After many years of sobriety […]
September 25, 2023
“As far as anonymity was concerned we knew who we were. It wasn’t only AA, but our social life. All of our lives seemed to be […]
September 25, 2023
The Big Book infers that we are to take stock honestly (p 64). My sponsor took this direction seriously with me because I had almost slipped […]
September 1, 2023
What Principles? When I first heard the term “practice these principles in all our affairs”, in Step Twelve, I was waiting for someone to hand me […]
August 31, 2023
After relating Step Four information with my sponsor, I had a much better understanding of my defects and shortcomings. I began to realize what aspects had […]
June 28, 2023
How Far Should I Go? Let me preface this article by saying that I am not being critical of anybody for any reason concerning where a […]
May 31, 2023
Pondering Step Five left me with a great deal of apprehension, but my sponsor didn’t allow time to back out. The Big Book tells us to […]
May 31, 2023
I Got It Right the Second Time My first attempt at doing a fourth step inventory came as I was approaching my first year of sobriety. […]
May 31, 2023
“Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves” Our family and friends; the significant individuals in our lives, sex, our relationship to power, money and […]
May 4, 2023
Dag Hammarskjold is quoted as having said “I don’t know who or what put the question, I don’t even remember answering, but at some moment I […]