Unconditional surrender “Help for addicts begins only when we are able to admit complete defeat. This can be frightening, but it is the foundation on which we have built our…
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Twelfth Step “failure”? “Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our…
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The masks have to go “…we covered low self-esteem by hiding behind phony images that we hoped would fool people. The masks have to go.” – Basic Text, p. 33…
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Surrendering self-will “We want and demand that things always go our way. We should know from our past experience that our way of doing things did not work.” – Basic…
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Spiritual death “For us, to use is to die, often in more ways than one.” – Basic Text, p. 82 As newcomers, many of us came to our first meeting…
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