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What is the point of getting sober?
The following excerpts are highlights taken from the first of five talks given by Allen McG at the Brentwood Beginners Meeting in Los Angeles, July 4, l968 (Allen passed on November 15, 1972). Why do we insist that there be a “point” to sobriety? In our culture, sobriety is seen as a virtue by drinkers…
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Homework: Writing Inventory on the Twelve Steps
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail” – Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, Pg. 89. Below are links to inventory work sheets from writings and talks by Dennis F., et al from the Unity Insures Recovery through Service…
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What does it mean to take an inventory?
In the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous you may hear someone use the phrase, “taking an inventory” in relationship to doing step work or “working the program”. Taking an inventory is a tool in the recovery journey, specifically outlined in the fourth and tenth steps of the AA program. It’s a process where individuals take a…
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Tenth Step Inventory
Step Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves forthe adventure of a new life. But when we approach StepTen we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practi-cal use, day by day, in fair weather or…
