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David H. – Big Book Study – Week 16 (Page 66 to Page 68)

May 14, 2019 twelvestep recovery

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This week’s installment of the Big Book Study is absolutely amazing. We are really getting in to the heart of the book and the message that it carries. Many people regard these pages as life-changing. You can go to meeting after meeting and will hear many different answers on how to write a fourth step. […]

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David H. – Big Book Study – Week 15 (Page 63 to Page 66)

May 9, 2019 twelvestep recovery

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Step 3 in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous is one of the most important and talked about steps in the program. What does it actually mean to turn our lives over to our Higher Power. What will that look like? Well, the good news is that the Big Book of AA really goes in to […]

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David H. – Big Book Study – Week 13 (Page 53 to Page 60)

April 16, 2019 twelvestep recovery

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This Big Book study is highly recommended, and stay tuned as David H. goes through page 53 and ends on page 60. Another installment packed with wisdom and experience, this week’s tape is incredible. Many meetings begin with a reading of “How it Works” and sometimes we hear it so often that it becomes something […]

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Chris R. – AA Speakers – “Turning it over” during tough times in sobriety

June 18, 2018 twelvestep recovery

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I’m deeply convinced along as I continue to do this program, even if it is in my own stumbling way towards the principles I first encountered, I’m going to stay sober here. What’s that power? All I can say is a power greater than myself. Be still and know that I’m God. Next paragraph, this […]

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Bob D. – AA Speaker – “Turn our will and lives over to the care of God”

April 6, 2017 twelvestep

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In Alcoholics Anonymous, the abandonment of self to the program of recovery is one of the hardest aspects of the twelve steps. Bob D., does an amazing job of breaking it down and explaining it in a powerful way. Trying to run the show and why we have to turn it over While reading the […]

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Bob D. – AA Speaker – How to find a Higher Power in sobriety

April 6, 2017 twelvestep

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I don’t have what it takes to stay sober on my own. When I was a newcomer in Alcoholics Anonymous, I would go in the bathroom at the halfway house, and I because I don’t believe in God, I would push the throw rug up against the crack underneath the door so no one would […]

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John D. – AA Speaker – “Progress, not perfection in AA!”

April 6, 2017 twelvestep

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One of the Alcoholics Anonymous slogans that is often told is that progress is the goal, not perfection. This is an incredible story by a great AA speaker who shares how he found faith when he placed his trust in something other than himself. Finding faith in the Third Step I can’t get drunk again […]

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Gloria D. – AA speaker – “Me? A Drinking Problem?”

April 6, 2017 twelvestep

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This is a powerful story of one of the best women AA speakers, Gloria D. She details her journey to recovery and how she was able to find the support she needed to make positive changes in her life. The power of fellowship and a new start I do not recall what exactly was said […]

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Lilly H. – AA Speaker – “Practicing Recovery Principles in All Our Affairs”

April 6, 2017 twelvestep

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I go out and I get in the back of that van. I knelt down that night and I said, “God give me one tenth of the faith my mother has.” The next day I’m driving those kids to school and I broke out in a sweat that I never want to forget. I got […]

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Sandy B. – AA Speaker – Why spirituality is key in alcoholism recovery

April 6, 2017 twelvestep

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I will tell you how the book ends; it ends with a spiritual awakening. That’s the point of the book, Step Twelve. Having had a spiritual awakening as the only result of these steps, we try to immediately show the next person how to have a spiritual awakening so that there it is. So then […]