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.