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    Understand and Complete The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Your Guide to All 12 Steps
    Understand and Complete The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Your Guide to All 12 Steps
    Understand and Complete The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Your Guide to All 12 Steps
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    Understand and Complete The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Your Guide to All 12 Steps

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    After almost 38 years in the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I am still in awe of the miracles I see. People who are so messed up when they first come into this program and soon after totally change into a rational, clear thinking human beings. This happens not by just going to meetings, that won't do it. It is only by fully immersing themselves into the 12 Steps that an incredible metamorphosis happens.
    Trembling despairing people turn into people you would be pleased to know. Even to call them a friend, when a few short months before you wouldn't have allowed them into your home. By being honest with yourself, working to live on a spiritual basis and getting an open mind for new approaches to life is a big part of how it works.
    This is not a religious movement at all. Religion has rules. Spirituality has only guidelines and suggestions. The person is free to find their own way looking only to live by spiritual principals instead of their previous personality. The true beauty of this process is you get better in spite of yourself. You simply follow the steps and changes within happen. Even those around you, like friends and family, will notice a difference. It seems that once we address the spiritual sickness within (because we spiritual beings) we straighten out mentally and physically. Over the last 38 years, I have had wondrous experiences, some of which I share in this guide.
    Even if your issue is not alcohol, this process will help you. Food, gambling, porn addiction, anger, you name the issue and the steps will help you out of it. Just do a Google search and look for groups like gamblers anonymous and over-eaters anonymous. They all use the 12 step process because it works. It actually works. You just have to get honest and work through the 12 step process.
    I wanted to put a 12 step guide into today's language to make the process easier to do, so you would get a better understanding of what you're doing. Just take a look at the reviews and see if people agree if I was successful at that goal.
    So if you're in trouble because of some recurring issue, this process can help you. Just replace the word "alcohol" with pretty much whatever problem you are having and get started.
    You can download Step One at no charge to see how I present the material and if you want to pick up the rest of the steps, the options are there for digital downloads or even getting a paperback edition in either size that suits you.
    I wish the best for you and I hope I can be of service if needed.
    Anonymous Guest


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    5.0 out of 5 stars- Practical, down-to-earth, very helpful, highly recommended


    Written in a plain, personable voice, these guides speak clearly and simply about "effective" implementation of the 12 Steps of AA. I'm reminded of a few game-changing one-on-one, over-coffee conversations I've had with other people who were trying to get, and stay, sober - for real.
    Hadn't had a conversation like that in way too long.
    I first bought the Step 3 guide, to see, and went ahead and bought the full 12 Step set, (at 50% off !,) because I liked what the Step 3 guide had to offer, and wanted to look at the Step 2 guide next. In for a penny...
    The Step 2 guide is, for me, real practical and real relevant. 32 years clean doesn't automatically translate to serenity, and I found strong support in this guide to where I would rather be in that regard. Got that still, soft sense of hope, again. That's been a while, too.
    Whether the other 10 guides will be as applicable, at this point, I am real glad I stumbled across them.


     5.0 out of 5 stars-One of the best.


    This book covers the steps like no other. For any newbie doing the steps, this book is a must.


    5.0 out of 5 stars-Progress not perfection


    Not only does the author make

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    PublisherAnonymous Guest
    Release dateDec 13, 2019
    ISBN9781499534733
    Understand and Complete The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Your Guide to All 12 Steps
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    Anonymous Guest

    After over 40 years in Alcoholics Anonymous I have to say I am profoundly grateful for the kindness and support I have found in this organization. I have met people from all walks of life in AA. Professionals, bums, movie stars, famous musicians, you name it. But without exception, every person who made the effort to work through the 12 steps have had great things happen in their lives.Of course there are bumps in the road when first trying to get sober. Some may call them major pot holes, but by learning to live by spiritual principals we learn to deal with them. Even overcome them in time.Through the program of AA I have become a proud father of a teenaged boy preparing for university. We enjoy our time together and live one day at a time. AA has taught us to appreciate each day because you don't know when your last day is upon you. No one does. So we love each other and apologize when we mess up. It really is about keeping things simple. Unfortunately I lost my daughter because of my drinking and irresponsibility. Perhaps one day we will start again, only God knows.I have placed one of my books here at no charge about what the first step is in the recovery program, and how to effectively understand what it really says. I believe you will be surprised with the difference between problem drinking and alcoholism. They really are night and day situations.In accordance with Alcoholics Anonymous tradition of anonymity at the public level, I use a pseudonym for my name.I wish you the best!

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      Understand and Complete The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous - Anonymous Guest

      Your Guide to Understand and Complete

      All 12 Steps

      For Those Who Earnestly Seek

      __________________________

      An Easy To Follow Guide in Today's Language

      __________________________

      by Anonymous Guest

      Understand and Complete One Step At A Time in Alcoholics Anonymous Selected, Compiled & Edited by: Anonymous Guest 2013 Copyright © May 2013 by Anonymous Guest All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      ISBN-13: 978-1521921326

      ISBN-10: 1973911264

      ISBN Canada: 978-0-9951679-2-6

      Dedication

      I dedicate this book to my first sponsor Blair T. A truly amazing man who took me through my first set of 12 steps and showed me the way to

      The Great Spirit.

      I will be forever grateful.

      Introduction

      What I am doing is offering a guide to each Step from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. This guide is not intended to replace the Big Book in any way, it is simply offered as additional help as you go through your steps. It’s not unusual to hear at a meeting that a person is having a problem with one or more steps out of the Big Book.

      So I have written a guide in today’s language that may help explain to you more of what each step is about and how it works. I recommend having your Big Book with you as you use this guide. If you do not have a Big Book with you but have access to the internet, you can read an online version which is available to read free in English, French or Spanish. Go to this URL:

      http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/

      With over 36 years’ experience in Alcoholics Anonymous, thousands of hours in Big Book studies and years of sponsoring dozens of people, I wanted to leave my strength, hope, and experience to those who may not be able to get to meetings as often as they would like. I’ve been mentored by incredible people who showed me the principals, promises, and keys to sobriety within the pages of the Big Book.

      I've met people from small towns that had only one meeting a week, others who were working on cruise liners, and some in the hospitals and in jails who just don't have access to all the AA has to offer. In situations and environments like these it can take hundreds of meetings to see the working solution that is offered through the 12 Steps. This book is offered in the hopes to make that process of understanding what the steps have to offer somewhat easier.

      This is why the newcomer is the most important person in the meeting when they arrive. It is not so they can help fill the ranks when the old timers pass away. Not at all.

      The only reason the new comer is the most important person in the room is because that meeting they go to may be the only opportunity they will ever have to hear the message of hope that will inspire them to get started in the Recovery Program known as the 12 Steps of AA.

      Many times we go to a meeting and hear more about how people used to drink than the solution they found to stay sober. So I want to share this message of recovery with you, like it was done for me. All that I ask is that you use the Big Book as your reference. Highlight your book with what you learn here and make the Big Book your own study and recovery book, then, pass on what you learn.

      Fair enough?

      What I have done is put together a guide through each individual step to help you along the way. Keep in mind that no single individual speaks for Alcoholics Anonymous. The Big Book itself contains the full prescription to a happy and sober life. The interpretation of that book sometimes causes some confusion because in was written in the language of 1939 but with the help of a good AA sponsor, a few Big Book Studies, and talking to your Higher Power on a regular basis, it will become clear.

      The funny thing is once you see it, the simplicity will almost make you laugh. Perhaps you've heard it before: I can't, He can, and now I'll let Him. It falls in line with HOW it Works. Honesty, Open mindedness, and Willingness.

      This is the roadmap to discovery (one step at a time) in what will prove to be a life changing journey for you in Alcoholics Anonymous. If you chose to use it.

      Let's get started.

      Step One

      We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable.

      I want to point out the importance of seeing this step as two distinct statements. First that we are powerless over alcohol, and that our lives had become unmanageable. Let’s start with the first part of this sentence:

      We admitted we were powerless over alcohol.

      When I first joined AA over 36 years ago it was pretty easy to admit I was powerless over alcohol because of my behavior while drinking. I still had some reservations because I didn't get in trouble every time I drank but when I did, it could get pretty bad. So I conceded to this statement in that context. However, as the years went by, and I watched newcomers and even some old-timers go back to drinking, I saw and understood the truth behind this powerful warning.

      It meant I was powerless over alcohol even after all these years sober! After any period of sobriety, I was still powerless from taking that drink again. It did not matter how many days, months, or years I had accumulated, I was powerless to stop myself from drinking alcohol on a permanent basis. Matter of fact, that's exactly how my first sponsor put the first step to me. We went to his home the night after he became my sponsor and sat me down at his kitchen table.

      He looked me square in the face

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