May 23, 2018
The Road to Mental Freedom Since the day I entered the program, I have had an insatiable appetite for learning all I could about the disease […]
March 28, 2018
The first edition of the book Alcoholics makes this brief statement about membership: “The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking. We […]
February 26, 2018
After several months of sobriety and several marbles were spinning in the same direction, it was suggested that I read the Big Book all the way […]
February 26, 2018
The information for Step Five began with a sincere session of spontaneous writing where I asked God to make clear my selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear. […]
January 25, 2018
It Renders My EGO a Weak Contender When people come through the doors of Alcoholics Anonymous they are usually overwhelmed with problems. Some of these problems […]
January 5, 2018
“Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” Doing a thorough Fourth Step can be difficult. To make matters worse are all the different worksheets, […]
November 22, 2017
Step Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Bill W’s writings communicate the Twelve Steps to us in a […]
October 30, 2017
Who can, positively, describe the dynamics of alcoholic thinking? No one can, as it is as diverse as the number of alcoholics in the world. So […]
September 25, 2017
The following is an excerpt from the pamphlet “Going Through The Steps – A.A. Sponsorship Pamphlet” by Clarence Snyder 1944 In Step 4, we’re asked to […]
July 28, 2017
In the meetings that I attend on a regular basis the topic of God comes up quite often and that’s not surprising since there is such […]
June 30, 2017
Many groups periodically hold an AA group inventory meeting to evaluate how well they are fulfilling their primary purpose: to help alcoholics recover through A.A.’s suggested […]
June 30, 2017
Each of our steps take a certain amount of thoroughness but for most of the steps, it seems we will be working on them for the […]