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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1/22/2019 0 Comments Recording For January 22, 2019(Week 20) 22 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. page 1: Bill’s Story War fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic. Here was love, applause, war; moments sublime with intervals hilarious. I was part of life at last, and in the midst of the excitement I discovered liquor. I forgot the strong warnings and the prejudices of my people concerning rink. In time we sailed for “Over There.” I was very lonely and again turned to alcohol. Soulwork look up: sublime, hilarious. Workshop writing on questions 1 & 2 Q1. We can like it when people give us compliments and expect them to continue doing this and our expectations lead to resentment What is your experience? Q2. ‘I remember being very lonely and turned to….’ [food, college, a degree, husband, love, new house, etc…] fill in the blank Q3. What did you learn from studying the Doctor’s Opinion? Q4. Was it worth three months of your life? Do you find how we do the Big Book, time well spent? Q5. Are you flattered when someone or a group go out of their way to do something kind? [Recovery brings us to gratitude of what they are doing as opposed to expectations.] Q6a. Healthy sobriety demands we stay in reality of what others will do. b. Expectations breed resentments. Write on these. [There’s nothing wrong with feeling heroic when you do something above and beyond what is expected. But if we want to be sober we have to be on guard and live in reality or we will expect people to keep treating us this way and when they don’t, get resentful - which is number one enemy of sobriety]. Q7. How old were you when you first picked up and what were you feeling? Ends 1/15/2019 0 Comments Recording For January 15, 2019(Week 19) 15 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 12-step study All Addictions Big Book workshop is now held on Tuesday and the Tuesday literature meeting has moved to Thursdays at 8am EST. To hear the recording of the Thursday meeting: 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 send to: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 The next quarterly business meeting will be 2 April 2019. Soulwork Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Doctor’s Opinion. From the top of page xxix (29) to the end of the chapter on page xxx (30). Look up: earnestly Q1. (workshop question). Write on hopeful expectancy as opposed to believing you are hopeless. How did that change come about? He had lost everything worthwhile in life and was only living, one might say, to drink. Q2. Write about that - your story. He frankly admitted and believed that for him there was no hope. Q3. Did you ever admit to yourself that there was no hope? Q4a). How long did it take you to accept the plan outlined in the big book; having a spiritual experience? b) How are you going to live out this plan of action? Q5. How long did it take you to see that you were the problem and that with God you could change? Q6. Have you 100 percent accepted the plan outlined in this book? Q7. Write down: God I surrender everything to you. You take care of it. Whom or what are you powerless over and need to surrender? Are you ready? Add Pace (yourself) to the list of P’s: Pray, plan, prepare, pace, partner and protect. Q8. Write again on them all. They are key to accepting the plan outlined.What are your hopeful expectancies? Q9. What does willpower mean? Is it a bad thing or a gift from God? Q10. Why is willpower so very important to recovery? [The key is to use it in the right way and why you need quiet time. It is use of the will to talk to God and bring God into your life]. Q11. Without God in my life and aligning my will with that of God, my willpower will cause my self-destruction. Write on this. Ends P.S. You may not be receiving these questions in your inbox emails because Debbie's Gmail account is now sending these to spam folders. If you don't get your questions by Tuesday evening, check your spam folder and see if it's in there. If it is, move it to your inbox and all future emails should arrive just fine. 1/8/2019 0 Comments Recording For January 8, 2019(Week 18) 8 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 12-step study All Addictions Big Book workshop is now held on Tuesday and the Tuesday literature meeting has moved to Thursdays at 8am EST. To hear the recording of the Thursday meeting: 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 Send to: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 The next three monthly business meeting will be held on 2 April 2019. Soulwork Big Book The Doctor’s Opinion page xxviii (page 28) All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. This phenomenon, as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these people, and sets them apart as a distinct entity. It has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence. This immediately precipitates us into a seething caldron of debate. Much has been written pro and con but among physicians, the general opinion seems to be that more chronic alcoholics are doomed. Soul work look up: doomed 1. Group question: Have you ever felt doomed? Do you feel doomed today, or do you know because you have God and Quiet Time that you are not doomed to your addictions? 2.How grateful are you today for your quality of life being in recovery? 3. How do you show your gratitude to God for this way of life God has graced you with? 4. Do you think, "But for the grace of God," and what does it mean for your step 1? 5. Write the word "wisdom." What does wisdom from your recovery program mean to you? 6. What in your life do you have to have total abstinence from? 7. Are you willing to have relief from your addictions by being entirely abstinent? Or do you want to be willing? 8. Are you willing with total abstinence to be put into a seething cauldron of debate with people who don't agree with you? Are you willing to stay out of debating with people who don't agree with you? 9. Are you willing to bring up the subject of your entire abstinence if appropriate? 10. Do you have the spirit of: a) judging others? b) self-righteousness? c) argumentativeness? d) "my opinion only is the right opinion"? END 1/1/2019 0 Comments Recording For January 1, 2019(week 17) 1 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 12-step study All Addictions Big Book workshop is now held on Tuesday and the Tuesday literature meeting has moved to Thursdays at 8am EST. To hear the recording of the Thursday meeting: 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 Send to: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 The next three monthly business meeting will be held on 2 April 2019. Soulwork Big Book The Doctor’s Opinion page xxviii (page 28) All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. This phenomenon, as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these people, and sets them apart as a distinct entity. It has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence. This immediately precipitates us into a seething caldron of debate. Much has been written pro and con but among physicians, the general opinion seems to be that more chronic alcoholics are doomed. Soul work look up: phenomenon, manifestation, allergy, permanently, eradicated, abstinence (look at the broader meaning of abstinence from ingesting a substance) Write this down: Acceptance of our differentness is the answer to all my emotional struggles. Q1. Like Mark Houston and the Hawke, do you believe that step one is the foundational step of all the 12? And that it is the most important step, giving us the ability to do the rest of the steps and live them out in our lives? [This is your number one question when you get with your buddy group. If you write on nothing else, write on this.] Q2. Do you know what you need to do to stay physically sober, emotionally sober and spiritually fit? Q3. Does it matter what others are doing? Do you compare your recovery with that of others or are you grounded with God and yourself in what you need to do physically, emotionally and spiritually? Q4. Do you believe there is no step more important than step one? Q5. How do you feel about being different from others for the rest of your life? [Once you become a pickle you can never become a cucumber.] ends |
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