All Addictions
12-Step Study
Workshop
12-Step Study
Workshop
1/29/2019 0 Comments Recording For January 29, 2019(Week 21) 29 January 2019
12 Step All Addictions Big Book workshop Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and to find these questions, go to: https://12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com/12-step-study-workshop Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. Note: The Tuesday literature meeting has moved to Thursdays at 8am EST. To hear the recording: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# Big Book: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text. And dictionaries specifically for the Big Book and AA 12 x 12. Soul work and members’ list: To receive the questions each week, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page to where there is space to write your name and email address and, if needed, request a buddy. To make changes, or ask for a buddy if you are already on the members’ list, email Debbie: [email protected]. Open Study Buddy Group is held on Sundays at 11 a.m. EST : (319) 527-3511, code 587213. Donations for the upkeep of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous: Chapter 1. Bill’s Story page 1-2: We landed in England. I visited Winchester Cathedral. Much moved, I wandered outside. My attention was caught by a doggerel on an old tombstone: “Here lies a Hampshire Grenadier Who caught his death Drinking cold small beer. A good soldier is ne’er forgot Whether he dieth by musket Or by pot.” Ominous warning - which I failed to heed. Twenty-two, and a veteran of foreign wars, I went home at last. I fancied myself a leader, for had not the men of my battery given me a special token of appreciation. My talent for leadership, I imagined, would place me at the head of vast enterprises which I would manage with the utmost assurance. I took a night law course, and obtained employment as investigator for a surety company. The drive for success was on. I’d prove to the world I was important. My work took me about Wall Street and little by little I became interested in the market. Many people lost money - but some became very rich. Why not !? I studied economics and business as well as law. Potential alcoholic that I was, I nearly failed my law course. At one of the finals I was too drunk to think or write. Though my drinking was not yet continuous, it disturbed my wife. We had long talks when I would still her forebodings by telling her that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk; that the most majestic constructions of philosophic thought were so derived. Soul work look up: ominous (prophetic warning) fancied, potential Write down: We only use the past today to teach us lessons for today. We do not need to use the past to beat ourselves up. Q1. Workshop writing: When was your first ominous warning you failed to heed that you had a problem with alcohol/food/relationship/job/ etc and it was going to get you into trouble? Q2. Did you recognise in yourself a manic depressive with no balance? Q3. What did you imagine for yourself? Do you see yourself in this paragraph? [As the head of a vast enterprise, a model, a movie star, making lots of money, marrying Mr Perfect, etc.] Q4. Using this passage write on EGO: Easing God Out. What was it like when God played no part in your life? The drive for success was on. I’d prove to the world that I was important. Q5. What was your driving point for success? What were your hopes and dreams? Were they unrealistic and did you realise them? I’d prove to the world that I was important. Q6. Can you prove to the world that all by yourself you are important or does it take more than I, I, I? Q7. What is your attitude towards money? Do you believe with more you would be happier? Is money security, your ticket to happiness, to being important? Does your bank account define who you are and your value? Q8. Philosophical question: Who do you think are the richest people in the world? Q9. How long were you a potential alcoholic? Q10. Have you ever been too hung over with food, alcohol, too worried about the debt you are in, too obsessed about a relationship etc., to function? Though my drinking was not yet continuous it disturbed my wife. Q10. Is there any behaviour of yours today that disturbs the people in your life? ends
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