"Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path...
...If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it--then you are ready to take certain steps."
Chapter 5, How It Works
Alcoholics Anonymous began in Akron, Ohio, way back in 1935 by founders Bill W. and Doctor Bob. Together with a new fellowship of alcoholics across the country, they began to work with others who before seemed beyond all hope of living happy, joyous, and free lives.
Today, millions of members across the world have found sobriety through AA's three tenets of Unity, Recovery, and Service.
What would be expected of me at a meeting?
Nothing! Come check out a meeting--it really is as easy as that.
What is AA based on?
Bill W. and Doctor Bob put together the first manual for recovery called "Alcoholics Anonymous," or more commonly, "The Big Book." In it, they outlined what steps they and hundreds of others had done in successfully staying sober. What it comes out to is a 12-step program, which can be found below.
What's a sponsor?
A sponsor is someone who has and is working through the 12-steps in The Big Book. They act as a guide.
I don't have a car, how can I get to a meeting?
Many cities have a support number you can call to receive rides from others in AA.
What are the steps?
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amend to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principals in all our affairs.
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