Alcoholics Anonymous --- 12 STEPS OF AA --- BACK TO BASICS --- Wally P. --- Sept. 22, 2012

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Alcoholics Anonymous --- 12 STEPS OF AA --- BACK TO BASICS --- Wally P. --- Sept. 22, 2012

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* Alcoholics Anonymous, “Big Book” pdf

* Alcoholics Anonymous, “Big Book” audio

STEP 1
We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol - that
our lives had become
unmanageable.

STEP 2
Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity

STEP 3
Made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the
care of God as we understood
Him.

STEP 4
Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.

STEP 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.

STEP 6
Were entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects
of character.

STEP 7
Humbly asked Him to remove
our shortcomings.

STEP 8
Made a list of all persons we
had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to
them all.

STEP 9
Made direct amends to such
people wherever possible,
except when to do so would
injure them or others.

STEP 10
Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.

STEP 11
Sought through prayer and
meditation to improve our
conscious contact with God as
we understood Him, praying
only for knowledge of
His will for us and the power
to carry that out.

STEP 12
Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to
carry this message to
alcoholics, and to practice
these principles in all
our affairs.

SURRENDER
SHARING
AMENDS
GUIDANCE

HONESTY
PURITY
UNSELFISHNESS
LOVE

TRUST GOD
CLEAN HOUSE
HELP OTHERS

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[charlesrosebushes]

I've been saying this for years we work every single step every day that we seek a daily reprieve

[charlesrosebushes]

Many people like to brag about having a sponsor and the sponsor has a sponsor and a grand sponsor but most of these people don't know what the problem or the solution according to the big book is.. They brag about having a sponsor because they can't brag about working the steps

[JimWelsh-fwhd]

I went thru this in Philly in 99, stayed sober for 5 years and relapsed.I had taken many thru the steps with the back to basics book.I met Wally P and James Houck at my sponsors house in Philly.Is there someone that I can talk to about the 4th step inventory? I forget how I actually did it with sponsees and I have a sponsee now who's ready thanks

[itsgoodtobeclean]

I appreciate the knowledge and effort but
I went to the website and it sure is seems expensive for a freely given product.