Courage to Change: In living with the disease of alcoholism, I became a fearful person who dreaded change. Although my life was full of chaos, it was familiar chaos, which…
One Day at a Time in Al-Anon: Until I understand the inner meaning of the Twelve Steps, my natural impulse is to resist admitting that they apply to me. I…
Prayer “Prayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills.” – Basic Text, p. 46 Many of us came into recovery with…
AA Thought for the Day: Step Four is “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” Step Five is “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being…
Courage to Change: Trying to follow a suggestion I heard in Al-Anon meetings, I dutifully wrote lists of things for which I was grateful. I listed such things as my…