All Addictions
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12-Step Study
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4/30/2024 0 Comments Recording For April 30, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop April 30, 2024
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To reach the leader of the group, Stephanie, call (617) 774-7916. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 85. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," Page 1 titled "Step Six," first two paragraphs. 1. Do you have the attitude that you are entirely ready to have God remove all your defects of character? 2. What do I have to do to have emotional sobriety? What’s your definition of emotional sobriety? 3. Have you moved into total willingness? 4. Have you in the past six months seen how it requires a great effort and awareness to move into the new frontier of living in emotional sobriety? 5. Have you seen yourself struggle with the same emotional issues over and over? 6. Where are you in your awareness of the need for extra help? What is something you need extra help with? 7. Look up “superiority.” 8. Take each defect referred to (in the second paragraph) and write about how you’re doing with each one of them: pride, superiority, judging, deep resentment, envy, self-pity. Are any of these keeping you in turmoil? Or do they pop up? (end)
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4/26/2024 0 Comments Recording For April 23, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop April 23, 2024
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To reach the leader of the group, Stephanie, call (617) 774-7916. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 84. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xvii (17) "Bill's thoughts" to end of Introduction on page xix (19). 1. Refer to page xviii (18). Take each step 1-12 and write how each principle represents that step for you. Those principles in order are: honesty, hope, faith, courage, integrity, willingness, humility, brotherly love, justice, perseverance, spiritual awareness, and service. 2. Page xix (19), "all the grasping and holding on to old patterns of behaving, thinking and feeling that are harmful to ourselves and to others." a) identify one harmful pattern of behavior b) identify one harmful pattern of thinking, and c) identify one harmful pattern of feeling, operating in your life today. (They might or might not be regarding the same issue). 3. Now take each of those three areas of behavior, thinking and feeling that you identified and write the new, useful and helpful pattern you want to aim for as the goal in each of them. Note: Stephanie returns for the April 30 workshop. (end) 4/17/2024 0 Comments Recording For April 16, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop April 16, 2024
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To reach the leader of the group, Stephanie, call (617) 774-7916. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 83. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xvi (16) first paragraph to end of first paragraph on page xvii (17). 1. In your life, what is looking "inward and upward"? 2. What is looking "outward and downward"? 3. Which experience(s) in today's reading do you relate to, after Step 5 -- same issues returning, "gone flat", drifting into "a numb place", or something else? 4. Question from the text: Can we explain why we aren't entirely ready? 5. Question from the text: Why can't we humbly ask? 6. Question from the text: What's in our way? 7. What has studying "Drop The Rock" revealed to you so far about the effectiveness of your past step work? (end) 4/10/2024 0 Comments Recording For April 9, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop April 9, 2024
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To reach the leader of the group, Stephanie, call (617) 774-7916. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 82. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xv (15) last paragraph: "The action of the Sixth and Seventh Steps culminates in dropping the rock—all the stubborn, grasping, stupid holding on to old patterns of behavior, thinking, and feeling that are harmful to our progress in recovery." 1. Write on Page 82 today of "As Bill Sees It." (It is attached in an image at the bottom of this email). 2. When was the last time you were at a business meeting where there were opposing viewpoints? a) What was your group's way of handling it? b) How did the chairperson handle it? c) How did you handle it in your being? d) Were you willing to listen to their reasoning about what they wanted? e) How did you handle the outcome when your viewpoint didn't have group conscience? f) How did you handle it when your viewpoint DID have group conscience? g) How did it affect how you felt and interacted with the opposing viewpoint people? 3. When did you have a conflict in your personal life, when you had different viewpoints? How did you handle it? 4. How do we handle conflict in our recovery groups and in our personal life? 5. What's "the action" that you have to take on the 6th and 7th step? (Hint: starts on page 101 of Drop The Rock. Another hint: Go to Quiet Time). 6. Look up the word "harmony." 7. What old patterns of behavior have you seen at this point? And what is at the bottom of the old patterns of behavior? 8. When was the last time you had an emotional hangover or emotional fog from losing your emotional sobriety? 4/3/2024 0 Comments Recording For April 2, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop April 2, 2024
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To reach the leader of the group, Stephanie, call (617) 774-7916. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 81. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xv (15) second paragraph "Shoemaker also passed...” to next paragraph ending at “The action." 1. What’s the difference between being joyous and free, and being happy? Give me an example of why you might think they’re the same. 2. Why do you think the steps are ordered for a reason? What’s been your experience taking the steps in order? Have you taken the steps out of order, and has that worked for you? 3. In looking at the whole vision of the 12 steps, how do you perceive the wisdom that was given to Bill Wilson on why he ordered them the way he did? 4. Excerpt page xv: "This prevents us from falling into the trap of understanding only just enough of the Program to make us miserable and not enough to make us happy. For example, some of us might fall into the trap of thinking the support system of the fellowship (meetings) is the entire Program of action." Write out your entire program of action for a day, and be specific. (end) 3/27/2024 0 Comments Recording for March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To reach the leader of the group, Stephanie, call (617) 774-7916. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 80. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xv (15) "Shoemaker wrote,” to same page, ending at the last paragraph “The action.” 1. What do you think it means that the answers will come “if your own house is in order?” How do you put your house in order? 2. In this same quote, what “answers” are we looking for? (Find quote on page 164 in the AA Big Book). 3. Do you feel that you’re stuck in old unproductive behavior patterns now today? What are some of them that God through recovery has been able to get you out of? 4. What’s your experience been needing to work all the steps continuously? 5. What answers do you want, and do you believe they will come IF your own house is in order? What is the “if”? (End) 3/19/2024 0 Comments Recording For March 19, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To reach the leader of the group, Stephanie, call (617) 774-7916. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 79. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xv (15) "Shoemaker wrote,” and next full paragraph, too. 1. Awareness. Willingness. Accountability. What insight have you been given lately into what you can do to remove what blocks you? 2. What do you do to get daily awareness that our character defects are the opposites of the program principles? 3. Write on the idea that God reveals as much truth as you can live up to. 4. What does it mean to you that “the answers will come if your own house is in order.” What are “the answers?” 5. What do you call Steps 6 and 7? Do you think that they’re the most important? 6. Perhaps the whole program is about Steps 6 and 7. What do you think about that? (End) 3/14/2024 0 Comments Recording For March 12, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop (March 12, 2024)
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To reach the leader of the group, Stephanie, call (617) 774-7916. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 78. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xiv (14) "The order..." to page xv (15) "Shoemaker wrote." Also reference "The Promises" on pages 83-84 in AA Big Book. 1. Look up the word "hollow." 2. What's your definition of humility? Look it up. Write out what it looks like to work Step 6 with humility as a guide. 3. Get out "The Promises" on pages 83-84 in the AA Big Book. Why do you think Bill wrote the promises as coming after Steps 8 and 9? 4. What's your experience, strength and hope experiencing the promises after Steps 8 and 9? 5. Look up "The Four Absolutes" from early AA recovery, and write them down: Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. 6. What's your "daily surrender?" Do you make a daily surrender? What do you need to surrender? 7. Are you struggling with Steps 1, 2 and 3? (end) 3/6/2024 0 Comments Recording For March 5, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop (March 5, 2024)
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To reach the leader of the group, Stephanie, call (617) 774-7916. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 77. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xiv (14) "These stories..." ending at "Working Steps Eight and Nine..." 1. Write about Stephanie's definition of emotional sobriety: "To see how I get in my own way and how emotions get in my way." Now write on your definition of emotional sobriety and share it with somebody. 2. "I must be persistent in "consistents". (Play on the word consistency as a noun). Write on this slogan. 3. Did you rationalize a character defect this week? If you did, what did you do about it? 4. "Our capacity to rationalize is unlimited." What is your experience with this? 5. Write about the four basic reasons we won't be "entirely ready:" a) Conscious decision that we will never give up a specific defect. b) Blaming our defects on others: people, situations, institutions. c) Rationalization. d) Denial, unaware of our own contribution to our problems. 6. Write out the question from the text: "How many times in active addiction did we say we were sorry without the slightest intent of changing our behavior so we wouldn't have to say we were sorry again?" On a scale of 1-10, how intent are you on changing behavior? (end) 2/28/2024 0 Comments Recording For February 27, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop (Feb. 27, 2024)
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 76. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xiii (13), last paragraph "In this ongoing process..." to top of page xiv (14) ending "...what blocks us from ourselves." 1. Do you have somebody in your life you can be 100 percent honest with? 2. Find a place in your home you feel comfortable. Make it your own prayer corner. Have your Quiet Time consistently. 3. Look up "ongoing." Look up "process." 4. Can you say that you're looking at your life as a half-full glass? If not, what's going on with you? Do you need to forgive somebody in order to let go of self-pity? Do you need to go to somebody right now and just talk things out so you can let go of self-pity? 5. a) Is there any self-pity in your emotions right now about anything? Write about it. b) Write a "Dear God" letter, asking God for an action plan on how you can deal with self-pity in a healthy, recovered way with emotional sobriety. And c) What has been your experience in overcoming self-pity? 6. Take these paragraphs read today and write about them. (Page reference is noted above). 7. What blocks you from the usefulness today to other people and your Higher Power? 8. What blocks us from ourselves? (end) |
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Our live phone meetings are every Tuesday at 8:00 AM EST. The phone number for these live meetings is (712) 775-7031, and the meeting ID number is 714744988#.
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You can listen to our recorded meetings at (641) 715-3900, pin 95666# for our Tuesday Big Book Step Study workshop. You can also hear our Thursday Big Book Study recordings at (641) 715-3900, pin 298913#. These meetings can be accessed at any time.
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