Recovery and Working the Steps

With Step Ten, we begin our program maintenance, daily reviewing our attitudes, actions and words – watching out for FRED, and keeping FRED away! Who is FRED? Fear, Resentment, EGO and Deceit. Working the Tenth Step is like daily dusting

  I did not take my initial Step Nine well. I was in a hurry to get past the discomfort I felt, recognizing that my drinking harmed others. I did not ask for help from my sponsor, before I took it.

STEP EIGHT: MADE A LIST OF ALL PERSONS WE HAD HARMED, AND BECAME WILLING TO MAKE AMENDS TO THEM ALL. . . . we will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past. (The

Once we are ready to have God remove our defects, finishing Step 6, it is commonsense to ask the power who is greater than we are to take away what we cannot remove on our own. In a real way

Once upon a time, I thought the Twelve Steps to be of uneven proportions. Steps 1, 2, and 3 seemed doable to ascend compared to Steps 4 and 5. These steps seemed as intimidating as scaling Mt. Everest! Working Step 6,

What We Do Working Step 5 What we can’t control, our past and present failures — the stuff we did wrong, the stuff we did not do, and the stuff we did poorly — we admit to God, and to ourselves, and

  Are you ready for Step 4? Made a Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory of Ourselves. Few of us may think we are . . . but working it honestly can be better than a miracle cure. Taking Steps 1,

Step Three is a decisoin to step out of bodage to what we can’t control, or cure. It’s also an action: life-changing, sanity restoring step, Refresher: Another member of  AA in a meeting I attend developed a way to start

Refresher: An AA in a meeting I attend developed a way to start working the Twelve Steps – using The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, and The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.   I am passing along what I am working