AA Spiritual Experience: The Ultimate Promise? What does the AA program promise?  I think the first half of the 12th Step sums it up as succinctly as ever…“Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message…” It’s … Read More

The AA Bedevilments: What is alcoholism?  There are four primary camps who battle to be adorned with the gold around their neck.  You know, to be recognized as the number one factor in the cause of alcoholism and, consequently it’s treatment.  These specific schools are: … Read More

OA 12 Steps…some of the best literature in the rooms. Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a fellowship rich with enthusiasm and hope. They zealously target a niche that not many dare tread but they do so with answers and compassion. That’s what I love about this … Read More

AA Promises The Twelve Promises If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to … Read More

“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” Step 12 AA Step 12 Mandate #1: Carry This Message You know what grinds my gears? When you ask … Read More

“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.”-AA Step 11 I struggled to find whose words best conveyed the punch-you-right-in-the-kisser confrontation … Read More