Archive Page

Categories

• Share
  • AA Service
  • Stop Drinking
    • How do we explain to other people why we decided not to drink?
    • What is our experience with aches, pains, sleeplessness or other physical symptoms in early sobriety?
    • What was our experience of the first 10 days sober?
    • What medical or other help did we need to initially stop drinking?
    • How did we cope with the initial withdrawal from alcohol?
  • Step One
    • What smashed the delusion we were like other people?
    • What does it feel like to have a craving for more after the first drink?
    • How did our drinking affect other people?
    • Why do we need complete abstinence from alcohol?
    • How is our drinking different from the average drinker?
    • Why did we decide to stop drinking?
    • What lies did we tell about our drinking?
    • What are some personal examples of having no defence against the first drink?
    • When did we start to realise we drink differently to others?
    • How did we learn our drinking was abnormal?
    • What was the last straw that made us decide to stop drinking?
    • How did we try to hide our alcoholic drinking?
    • How do I know I'm an alcoholic?
    • How has our drinking made our lives unmanageable?
    • What convinced us we were powerless over alcohol?
    • What did we lose because of our drinking?
  • Step Two
    • When did we find hope?
    • When did we realise that the drinking problem could be solved?
    • How do we keep an open mind on spiritual ideas?
    • What does the AA program promise?
    • Why do we need a Higher Power?
    • What convinced us to try AA's 12 step program?
    • How did we choose our own conception of God?
    • Where did we find hope?
    • How did we come to believe in a power greater than ourselves?
    • What convinced us that the AA program could work for us?
  • Step Three
    • What old ideas did we need to let go?
    • What was our experience when taking step three?
    • What are we deciding to do when we take Step Three?
    • How did we become willing to take step three?
    • What was the effect of taking Step Three?
    • When were we ready to start the housecleaning steps?
    • What did we do to start living on a spiritual basis?
  • Step Four
    • How are resentments dangerous to our sobriety?
    • What made us balk at writing our Step Four inventory?
    • What did we learn about ourselves in our step four inventory?
    • What fears did we discover while taking inventory?
    • Why is inventory necessary?
    • How do we ensure our fourth step inventory is fearless and thorough?
  • Step Five
    • What did we gain by sharing our inventory with another person?
    • T'Mara – What was the effect felt in the days after taking step five?
    • How did we choose the person or people to hear our inventory?
    • What did we discover about ourselves while sharing our inventory?
    • What was our experience when sharing our secrets with someone in the fifth step?
    • How did we overcome our reluctance to share our inventory with another person?
  • Step Six
    • What defects of character have we identified and need to let go?
    • How did we become willing to change?
    • What defects of character did we hesitate to give up?
    • What does it mean to be ‘entirely ready’ in Step Six?
  • Step Seven
    • How did we find the humility to take step seven?
    • How did we take Step Seven?
    • What spiritual qualities do we aspire to?
    • Which of our shortcomings have we seen removed?
    • What do we pray for in step seven?
  • Step Eight
    • What do we do about wrongs we can never right?
    • What amends did we balk at doing?
    • How did we overcome reluctance to make amends?
    • How did we become willing to make amends?
    • What are some examples of amends we can’t or shouldn’t make?
  • Step Nine
    • How did our lives change after we made amends?
    • How have we made financial amends?
    • What unexpected consequences came from making amends?
    • How do we ensure our amends are sensible, tactful, considerate and humble?
    • How have we made amends to family?
    • How do we make amends to our loved ones?
  • Step Ten
    • What growth have we gained by practicing Step Ten?
    • How do we deal with new resentments when they crop up?
    • When did we feel that the drink problem had been removed (as promised in step ten)?
    • How do we watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear?
    • How do we turn our thoughts to someone we can help?
  • Step Eleven
    • How do we maintain the discipline to pray and meditate regularly?
    • Has there been a revolutionary change in our way of living and thinking?
    • How do we constructively review our day?
    • What is our morning spiritual routine?
    • When did we start to try meditation and prayer?
  • Step Twelve
    • How is Step Twelve important to our sobriety?
    • What are the joys of working with others?
    • What practical advice do we offer to a newcomer who is struggling to stop drinking?
    • How do we describe AA to someone who has never been to a meeting?
    • What do we tell newcomers about our struggles to stop drinking?
    • What solution are we offering to newcomers?
    • How do we know we have had the ‘spiritual awakening’ promised in Step 12?
    • Can an atheist have a spiritual awakening?
    • What message do we pass on to newcomers in AA?
  • AA Life
    • What do we tell other people about our alcoholism now we are sober?
    • What AA Literature have we found most useful?
    • Why do we go to meetings?
    • What did we learn from other newcomers in early sobriety?
    • How has an AA sponsor helped us?
• News