WHAT DO I NEED TO DO...

Personally, I would recommend finding a meeting in your area.  As many as you can.  In the beginning, for me, the more meetings the easier it was not to drink.  Find a sponsor.  Work the steps.  Sit down and listen and do what is recommended.  It is pretty simple, though it may not be easy.

And please keep coming back.


Tricia

Also...... Go to "Step 1" There are directions. Got a book?

This was my share at my Al-anon meeting this morning... it was really a lightbulb moment for me and I am posting it in hopes that someone else may be as inspired as I was. first... thank you all for being here every time I log into a meeting I am so grateful this morning I was thinking about the 12 steps as a whole when I came to Al-anon I took the 12 steps the wrong way I thought of them more along the lines of the 10 commandments like I had to accomplish them all... all the time I don't know how to explain it other than that...lol but in talking to a fellow al-a-sister :) I was informed how importantly it is to follow them and really change your life with each step from the top taking the first step... (I have learned) is mot a mat5ter of reading or saying the words "admitted we were powerless..." but believing and impressing them so deeply on our conciousness that admitting it becomes established as our way of thinking and feeling someone said to me "fake it till you make it"... and I lol but like an earlier sharer (idk who) said her sponsor is inspiring her to take one moment at a time for 20 days (is that what it was) and it will instinctually become a habit I've heard that somewhere else before and I did just that I told myself that I am going to admit that I was powerless and at first I still didn't believe it but eventually as I came back and got hit with bombshell after bombshell of esh ( ^esperience/strength/hope it the shairs that I read I had a lightbulb moment and to my surprise I really was powerless over alcohol that is when I moved on to step two... waited for the lightbulb moment...ding!... I get it moment that I moved on to step 3 and now stuck on step 4 and it makes me proud of myself again to know that have the willpower to accept the things I cannot change and actually move on to take care of me but step 4 it is... and I been told, that for every negative thought in this process that I have... to think of a positive one before I move on to the next thought my words may not be coming out clearly to you guys this morning but they sure are filling in the blanks for me...lol thank you for letting me ramble done