Steps & Traditions

• There  is  a  solution. • We   have   found   much   of   heaven   and   we   have   been   rocketed  …

Be  thankful  for  every  day.  For  it  has  a  season,  a  reason  and  is  always  a  blessing      ~  Vicki  Reece Let   your   dreams  …

Wally  P.  is  an  archivist,  historian  and  author  who,  for  more  than  twenty-­‐three  years,  has  been studying   the   origins   and   growth   of  …

Continued  to  take  personal  inventory  and  when  we  were  wrong  promptly  admitted  it. Many  A.A.  pioneers  described  Steps  Ten,  Eleven  and  Twelve  as  the  Guidance  Steps.    In…

by  Wally  P. Made  a  list  of  all  persons  we  had  harmed,  and  became  willing  to  make  amends  to  them  all. Made  direct  amends  to  such  people  wherever…

Were  entirely  ready  to  have  God  remove  all  these  defects  of  character. Humbly  asked  Him  to  remove  our  shortcomings. Some  A.A.  pioneers  refer  to  Steps  Six  and  Seven…

by  Wally  P. Admitted  to  God,  to  ourselves,  and  to  another  human  being  the  exact  nature  of  our  wrongs. In   a   previous   article,   I…

Made  a  searching  and  fearless  moral  inventory  of  ourselves. In  the  last  article,  we  examined  the  assets  and  liabilities  checklist  used  by  the  A.A.  pioneers to   take…

Made  a  searching  and  fearless  moral  inventory  of  ourselves. In  the  past  three  articles,  we  have  been  through  the  Surrender  process  as  practiced  by  the A.A.  pioneers  during…

Made  a  decision  to  turn  our  will  and  our  lives  over  to  the  care  of  God  as  we  understood Him. In  this  article,  we  will  examine  the  third…

Melissa, in her seventh year of recovery, was “struggling but just about two weeks sober” when a friend took her to her first Back to Basics meeting in…

The Alcoholics Anonymous Concepts of World Service The Twelve Concepts for World Service were written by A.A.’s co-founder Bill W., and were adopted by the General Service Conference…

The Alcoholics Anonymous Concepts of World service In this issue we present Concepts 4, 5 and 6 The Twelve Concepts for World Service were written by A.A.’s co-founder…

The First Tradition Check List: Practice These Principles Tradition One: Our common welfare should come first ; personal recovery depends on A.A. Unity. 1. Am I in my…

I am grateful to the couple of members at my early meetings that ‘encouraged’ me to read the AA literature and start working on the Steps right at…

We’re entirely ready to have God remove our character defects When I first entered AA on 8th June 1992, I was a defect looking for a char­ acter.…

My name is Jim and I am a very grateful recovering alcoholic. My AA birthday is the 27th November 1989 and I have been blessed with continuous sobriety…

1. Honesty (After many years of denial, recovery can begin with one simple admis­ sion of being powerless over alcohol) and Surrender. (Capitulation to hopeless­ ness.) [Rod L.…

“Step one is pretty straightforward; I can’t drink and I have trouble not drinking” “That dash between the sentences in the First step is small but incredibly important.…

“I began to see that insanity is not the crazy, stupid things I do when I’m drinking. It’s the crazy, insane idea that this time it’s going to…

“ What first appeared to be a flimsy reed turned out to be the loving and powerful Step 3 “ Made a decision to turn our will and…