Alcoholics Anonymous most effective path to alcohol abstinence

March 2, 2021Posted inAlcoholism
From article found here from Stanford Medical School A Stanford researcher and two collaborators conducted an extensive review of Alcoholics Anonymous studies and found that the fellowship helps more people achieve sobriety than therapy does. Alcoholics Anonymous, the worldwide fellowship of sobriety seekers, is the most effective path to abstinence,…

Perseverance in the road to recovery

August 13, 2020Posted inAlcoholism, Tools
perseverance/pəːsɪˈvɪər(ə)ns/noun persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. "his perseverance with the technique illustrates his single-mindedness" Getting sober is difficult to really achieve, the mindset that no matter what happens to me, drinking alcohol will never be part of the solution. The idea that I will turn over…

Forgiveness

July 24, 2020Posted inAlcoholism
Steps Eight and Nine are concerned with personal relations. First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next, we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider…

Why is Step 4 so important to our recovery?

July 23, 2020Posted inAlcoholism
The purpose of Step 4, “made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves”, is to determine the root cause of our drinking, identify any personal issues (character defects) that may have contributed to our alcoholism, and understand ourselves completely.  We uncover what we call our "defects of character", those…