Category: 12 Steps

Someone in recovery put me on to these podcasts and I really get a lot out of them for a “meeting between a meeting”  recovery connection – Silvio is a very personable and engaging interviewer. I’m listening to 12 Steps & 12 Questions – Patrick McA (AA) on Podbean, check…

These sheets were devised from the Joe and Charlie Big Book Studies circa late 1990s. The first three columns are the same ones in the Big Book, listed in Chapter 5. The fourth column refers to the instruction: “Referring to our list again. Putting out of our minds the wrongs…

The Great Spirit Prayer is translated from a Native American Lakota Chief called Yellow Lark: Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose breath gives life to all the world. Hear me, I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyesever…

I came across this prayer recently when they read it out at the beginning of a recovery zoom meeting. It has also been added to the “My Spiritual Toolkit” app. Some days I think I know it all and other days I think I don’t know anything and feel like…

Here is a article I wrote for Share Magazine STEP Seven is one of the more challenging Steps to discuss at length. The section in the Big Book is short – just a prayer. Whilst I would never really endorse messing with the Big Book, I have inherited, from my…

This paragraph below is taken from Chapter 4 – “We Agnostics”. Whilst it is not directly stated, it is generally used in the Fellowship as a good guideline for the ‘unmanageability’ bit of Step 1. “We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were…

Step 1: The mental obsession. 1. Read Chapter 2 ‘There is a Solution’. Pay particular attention to: “The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring…

Alcoholics Anonymous -Step 1:“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”There are three sections to this step – the physical craving, the mental obsession andunmanageability.