Cease Fighting

To stay sober is to cease fighting anything and everything. We internalize anger in the form of a resentment, which is basically an inner dialogue of how you are going to fight someone or something. "I'm gonna kill that guy/girl/dude/chick". How many times have you said that to yourself? While…

What are we doing about our sobriety?

As a sober alcoholic I need to live my life in the present. I need to always ask myself "what are you doing"? Living consciously is an important step to maintaining a sober life. My motives need to be assessed. I need to understand that my addiction previously drove my…

Forgiveness

Steps 8 and 9 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 thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we…