work the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

ive been going to AA for about 10 months- done the whole rehab thing and everything- now i want to start the steps, ive got a sponser so now its just a case of getting my arse in gear

I have a little over 8 months sober now, after a slip in February. After that, I dove into the program with as much willingness and honesty as I could pray for. The steps are amazing! Although I sometimes wish I didn’t slack so much on them. However, I am proud of my progress, and I’ll be starting 9th step next week… It hasn’t been an easy road, but it’s definitely been worth it. It’s true what they say, my worst day sober is better than my best day drunk. Never thought I’d get to that mindset haha..

“Keep coming back, it works if you work, so work it, you’re worth it, and live!”

im new here, but not to recovery. i am an alcoholic, and as of july 10 i would have 8 years sobriety, but the last 2 years have been diffucult. i have slipped. i have had the worst time i think in my life. i am back to meetings, sober, and wanting to work the 12 steps. they are very overwhelming to me now. i dont have a sponser and i know how important it is, but i have the worst time talking to people, especially if i have to. i am willing, in all ways, to do what i need to. i dont want to drink anymore, i want to live.

I’m looking for inputand help on doing the 1st step with a sponsee. We are reading the big book, she has written about her powerlessness over alcohol, who and what was affecting by her drinking, moments of in her life depicting the obsession and life’s unmanagability

Three years sober today and an active member of AA. The steps are where it’s at for this drunk. Good luck to all. Things are supposed to be awkward if we haven’t done them before. It’s ok.

I had to work the 12 steps in order to get sober. step 4 was the biggest deal for me. I half assed the first three steps. 1. 2. 3. relapse. 1.2.3. relapse until I worked a 4th and 5th step I could not stay sober for more than 27 days. In two weeks I will pick up my first blue chip!!!

I got a sponsor this week, after a month of sobriety and going to a meeting at least every other day. I’m working on my first step with her now. I’ve seen how the steps work for others, and I’m excited to start them! But I need to not get ahead of myself and take it slow. As I heard the other night, there’s no time-table for recovery. I’m still dealing with powerlessness and acceptance, after all…

Also something I heard this week that’s been on my mind: “Expectations are future resentments.”

This goal actually started out as “not give up on myself”.

I hear people say all the time that ‘life is different’ and I question whether they have done it right. That’s not what the book promises and that hasn’t been my experience. Over and over the book talks about life getting BETTER. That’s what has happened for me. Life is BETTER.

*Read the book – over and over and over.
*Find a sponsor – someone you can trust, someone who is contented, someone who reaches out to the next suffering alcoholic/addict and shares a message of hope as it is laid out in the book, someone who works with a sponsor of their own – and then
*do everything they suggest as long as they can show you where in the book it is suggested you do it.
*Do it to the best of your ability, and
*do it as quickly as you can. None of this 2 years to write an inventory shit and none of this being on steps 1, 2 or 3 for anything more than a month, TOTAL, for all 3. Get it done! (What, you have something more important to do than save your life?)
*Remember, it’s not about YOU – it’s about the next suffering alcoholic/addict so you have to
*PASS IT ON! We only get this new and useful life through
*service and self sacrifice for others.

Remember what St. Francis said. “If God can work through me, He can work through ANYBODY.”

You can catch up with me at The Last Chance Texaco

I love your guts.

I am there.
i’m on 12.
i’m supposed to go over it soon!

The steps to me a re a guide for living responsibly. Something I had failed to do for most of my life thus far. Saw this outline that made it clear to me what they do for those of us that work them hope it helps someone else:

Give up: Steps 1-3
Own up: Steps 4-7
Grow up: Steps 8-12

Good luck to all trying this and remember there is a solution!

BTW: 26 months clean and sober here and loving it!