Extracts of my 12 step workbook
Step Three Part One - Making A Decision
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Why is making a decision central to working this step? I think deciding is an act of will and also the start point of a willingness to fol...
Step Two: Part Seven Moving On
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What action can I take that will help me along the process of coming to believe? This is a difficult one but I guess just more of the sam...
Step Two Part Six: Spiritual Principles
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What is having a closed mind harmful to my recovery? In so many ways!!! I think and then I over-think, analyse ... see potential problems...
Step Two Part Five: Restoration to Sanity
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What are some of the things I consider examples of sanity? Responding rather than reacting. Taking time to think things through, to look ...
Step Two Part Four: A Power Greater Than Ourselves
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Do I have problems accepting that there is a Power or Powers greater than myself? Not in the broad sense no. I don't have any problem ...
Step Two Part Three: Coming to Believe
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Do I have any fears about coming to believe? I am afraid of everything! Do I have any fears about coming to believe? Yes, I do. Specifical...
Step Two Part Two: Insanity
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Did I believe I could control my drinking? What were some of the experiences with this, and how were my efforts unsuccessful? I tried for ...
Step Two Part One: Hope
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What do I hope about today? I hope that I can work the steps and learn to apply the principles consistently. I hope that I can learn to li...
Step One Part Nine: Moving On
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How do I know it is time to move on? I don't. I need to talk this out with someone in AA that I trust. What is my understanding of S...
Step One Part Eight: Spiritual Principles
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If I've been thinking about drinking or acting out my addiction in some other way, have I shared it with my sponsor or told anyone else?...
Step One Part Seven: Surrender
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What am I afraid of about the concept of surrender if anything? I think the only thing that really frightens me is that I will be require...
Step One Part Six: Reservations
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Have I accepted the full measure of my disease? I absolutely recognise that I've got an addiction, and that this means that I will nev...
Step One Part Five: Unmanageability
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What does unmanageability mean to me? Outwardly my life seems mostly OK. There are signs of this unmanageability ... frequent absenses fro...
Step One Part Four: Powerlessness
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Over what exactly am I powerless? When I drink I always want to drink enough to get drunk. The only time that doesn't happen is when t...
Step One - Part Three: Hitting Bottom: Despair & Isolation
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What crisis bought me to recovery? I knew for a while before I joined BrightEye that I had a drink problem. There was no crisis as such. I...
Step One - Part Two. Denial.
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Have I given plausible but untrue reasons for my behaviour? What have they been? When I drank I often lied about the reasons I was drinkin...
Step One - Part One. The desease of addiction
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What does "the disease of addiction" mean to me? To me it means that there is a strong compulsion on my part to repeatedly act i...
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