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Step 3 - AA
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From the "12 Step and 12 Tradition" book:
"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him"
"Practicing Step 3 is like the opening of a door which to all appearance is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door...
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Step Two Share
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Step Two - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
This was a hard step for me as I wanted no part of religion and I was not comfortable with talking about God. But I had accepted my powerlessness in the First Step and I was willing to try.
First I had to admit t...
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Tradition 2
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From the "12 Steps and 12 Traditions" book:
"For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern."
"Where does AA get its direction? Who runs it? This, too,...
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Step 2 - ACoA
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From "The 12 Steps for Adult Children"
"We prepare for Step 2 by acknowledging that we don't know everything about our Higher Power. Many of us have a distorted view of God. Although we are not quick to admit it, we may believe that God is like our abusive or absent parents or significant others...
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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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access to this board? John? Dot?
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It has come to my attention that when people try to come to this board from the ACoA message board that there is a message that says that this board no longer exists!! Please say it isn't so! It is still possible to come in through the home page menu. What's up?
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Step 2 - AA
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From the "12 Steps and 12 Traditions" book of AA:
"Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"
"The moment they read Step 2, most AA newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, sometimes a serious one. How often have we heard them cry out, 'Look...
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Traditipn One share
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Tradition One - Our common welfare should come first - personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity.
This is a WE program. Our own recovery depends on the well-being of our group and al-anon as a whole - the same as in a family.
For me it means that I help keep my al-anon meeting a s...
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Tradition 1
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From the AA "12 Step and 12 Tradition book":
Tradition 1 - "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity."
"The unity of AA is the most cherished quality our Society has. Our lives, the lives of all to come, depend squarely upon it. We st...
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Step one share...
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"What I do not admit in Step One is just as important as what I do admit. I do not admit that I am a failure. I may feel like a failure,but I've learned in this program that feelings aren't facts. If I stop to reflect, I realize that I'm not diminished when I admit my powerlessness over alcohol. In fac...
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Step 1 - ACoA
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from "The 12 Steps for Adult Children"
"The ideas presented in Step 1 are overwhelming to most of us until we begin to see our lives as they really are. It is threatening to imagine that we could be powerless; that our lives could be unmanageable. Our life experiences remind us that our behavio...
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Step 1 - AA
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"Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness...
"But upon entering AA we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through this utter defeat are we able to ta...
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First Step ACA, CoDA, SLAA
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I have been in and out of various 12 step programs since I was 18 (so for twenty years) -- completely out for the last ten years. I started in Al-Anon but also tried AA and NA when I was college, then tried CoDA and ACoA in my mid- to late-20s. Those latter two were the best fit for me, since I think ACA issues un...
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Step One Share
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When I came to the rooms of al-anon I wanted them to tell me how to help the a stay sober - he had gone to AA.
What a shock when they told me his sobriety was not my business - that my business was taking care of me. I didn't want to hear this - I had spent 30 years trying to make the a happy and felt there must be s...
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Amanda
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Hi - Don't see why we can't try it a week at a time and see how it works. For me it's a matter of time - but I'll try to post in a timely manner.
Go for it - Love Dot
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Al-Anon - Step One
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Al-Anon Step One - We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
From Paths to Recovery - pg. 9 (copyright 1997, by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc., Limited use by express written permission of Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.)
Admit...
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Hello
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Hi everyone - I just found the board. Will post something from Al-anon's First Step in a day or two.
Love in recovery - Dot
(((((((((((all))))))))))
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hello
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Hi, I am just checking in. I'm willing to help with this board just as I helped with the old one. Are we going to start the Steps over again? which is fine with me. I am going to wait to hear from Dot or John before I do anything.
laterzzzz,
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