Admitting Defeat
- A statement of the problem
- Breaking through denial – gaining an awareness that there is a problem
- Admission of powerlessness and unmanageability of one’s life – honesty
Admitting Defeat
Admitting Defeat
Return to Sanity
Trust
Looking Within
Secrets
New Ways
Courage to Change
Facing the Consequences
Confronting the Past
Vigilance
Embracing the Mystery
Awakening
“If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will comprehend the meaning of the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations, which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us – sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.”
Big Book. 3rd ed. pp. 83-84
Hope instead of desperation
Faith instead of despair
Courage instead of fear
Peace of mind instead of confusion
Self-respect instead of self-contempt
Self-confidence instead of helplessness
Respect of others instead of pity and contempt
Clean conscience instead of guilt
Real friendship instead of loneliness
Clean pattern of life instead of purposeless existence
Love and understanding of our families instead of their doubts and fears
Freedom of a happy life instead of the bondage of an obsession
Alcoholics Anonymous
World Services Inc.
475 Riverside Drive, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10115
Phone (212) 870-3400
Adult Children of Alcoholics
World Service Organizations, Inc
ACA WSO
P.O. Box 3216
Torrance, CA 90510
Phone: (310) 534-1815
Friends in Recovery
The Twelve Steps for Adult Children
RPI Publishing
Curtis, WA, 1987-1996
Narcotics Anonymous
World Services Office in Los Angeles
P. O. Box 9999
Van Nuys CA 91409
Phone: (818) 773-9999
Fax: (818) 700-0700
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
475 Riverside Drive, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10115
Phone (212) 870-3400