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how do I get started with this program?
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Just signed up, I live up in the mountains and it will be easier for me to do this program online. How do I get started and when does the group meet?
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STEP ONE - Emotions Anonymous
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ML here....powerless over my emotions.... .just my personal experience.. ...not the 'truth' of Emotions Anonymous (see them online if interested)...take what you need and leave the rest..... STEP ONE: "We admitted we were powerless over our emotions - that our lives had become unmanageab...
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New to 12 Steps
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Are the Al-anon 12 steps the same as ACoA 12 steps? Time To Change
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A.A.'s We need Step 1,2,3, done properly and in order
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On page 6 we have a hodge Podge of Steps 1-3 that look like they should be taken apart and given there own space. it would be nice to have the Alcoholics Anonymous ( Big BOOk), and the twelve Traditions books (12 x 12 ) follow along with a reading plan with each Step. So NEWBIES actually dong these Step...
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Step One
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Hi....new to this forum but a 13year member in Al-anon. Being that it is January I would like to immerse myself into Step One. I was reading about understanding Step One cognitvely but feeling it in our hearts is where it is supposed to do the most good for us. How did you get there???? Thanks
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A.A. Before Step One
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Dear Winners When working with my first Sponsor for the first time and each time that I have gone over the Steps since. I read my books from the beginning. With the 12x12 in hand and the Alcoholic Anonymous Blue Book (Big Book) in hand I sit down to do some reading. My Recovery/Sobriety Birthday i...
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STEP TWO - EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS (con't)
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Step 2 EA continued...... Further Quotes for EA book "It Works If You Work It" : (pg 35) "Sanity may be an off-putting concept, until we think back on all the times we'd done the same thing over and over, each time expecting miraculously different results." My life was based on a s...
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STEP TWO - EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS
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ML here....powerless over my emotions....... quotes from EA book titled "It Works If You Work It": (pg 34 - 35) ...."But we soon realize that on our own we had not be able to solve our problems; willpower and resolve had not changed our negative behaviors and attitudes. We see that our...
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Hi to all
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Hi all - Sorry to be gone so long. For quite a few months the site server could not accept postings from my webtv. Consequently our web master (John) had to receive and add my posts to the board. I now have a computer - not very literate yet - so will do my best. Also have had problems with my neck - Drs tr...
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Al-Anon Step Twelve
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"Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." hi everyone thanks for all the shares. I chose this quote from a step 12 page - it illustrates one of the reasons I found Al-Anon helpfu...
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Happy New Year
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Happy NEW YEAR. I am certainly grateful for the past year. That I can look back today with more Wisdom that I had a year ago. Why do I have a years worth of Wisdom? Because I am a year older another year Sober and that qualifies me right there. But it takes more than just having a Birthday to attain Wisdom....
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Al-Anon Step Eleven
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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." Hi everyone, looks like Dot might be busy so I thought I'd put up the topic. Al-Anon contains many rea...
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Step Three - Al-Anon
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Step Three - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
From "How Al-Anon Works for Families and Friends of Alcoholics" pg. 49 (Copyright 1995 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Limited use by express written permision of Al-Anon Family Gro...
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STEP 10 -AA
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STEP 10 CONTINUED TO TAKE PERSONAL AND WHEN WE WERE WROUNG PROMPTLY ADMITTED IT. Step 10 which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along . We vigorously commence this way of living as we cleaned up the past. We have entered the world of th...
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Step Two Al-Anon
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Step Two - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
From Paths to Recovery - Al-Anon's 12 Steps, Traditions and Concepts, pg 19. (copyright 1997, by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc., Limited use by express written permission of Al-Anon Family Grou...
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Christmas behind RAZORWIRE
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Hey everyone, We pray that you all had a very Merry Christmas and that your upcoming New year is glorious. Today was filled with travels to each of our parent's homes. Mine then my husband's, and the Sister-in laws. The best part of the entire Christmas Day. Well, it was going to a ricketty Old Chapel si...
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USING PROGRAM OR BEING 'DISTRACTED'
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ML here....powerless over my emotions.....I am a grateful member of Emotions Anonymous. This is just about my experience with my Program. Take what you need and leave the rest. I always have a choice. I always have a choice to use Program. I always have a choice of ask for HP's will or follow my own. I can...
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step 10 NA
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I have found a daily inventory or "look back" at my day to be very helpful in identifying areas of my life which need attention or more work. NA has an information pamphlet entitled "living the program" which I have found to be very helpful in a daily analysis of how my recovery i...
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It was the night before christmas...
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The most beautiful christmas forward that I received this christmas... moved me to tears... a post from the loved one of an addict... This beautiful share filled with the loving grace of the Higher Power has to be shared with all... 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house One creatu...
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A Group Concience
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The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Hi everyone and Merry Christmas. Do you know that I need to bring something to the group conciense for review. Several months ago I was kicked off the A.A. message board. The reason that was given was because I spoke to much about my h...
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