All Addictions
12-Step Study
Workshop
12-Step Study
Workshop
2/26/2019 0 Comments Recording For February 26, 2019(Week 25) 26 February 2019
12 Step All Addictions Big Book workshop Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: 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. Thursdays literature workshop 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: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and ask for a buddy. If you are already a member and want a buddy, email Debbie: [email protected]. Open Study Buddy Group: Sundays 11 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. Everyone is welcome. 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 4 paragraph 3: ‘We went to live with my wife’s parents. .’….ending with the penultimate line on page 5: ‘…Was I crazy? I began to wonder, for such an appalling lack of perspective seemed near being just that.’ Soulwork look up: prodigious The key to success in recovery is to Surrender. Nevertheless I still thought I could control the situation. Q1. How long did it take you to realise you had no control? And how long to surrender? Write the specific situation. I woke up. This had to be stopped. I saw I could not take so much as one drink. I was through forever. Q2. When did you wake up? Q3. When did you realise that the first drink/bite put you on a bender/binge? Gradually things got worse… Q4. How did things get worse? Then I got a promising business opportunity. Stocks were at the low point of 1932, and I had somehow formed a group to buy I was to share generously in the profits. Then I went on a prodigious bender, and that chance vanished. Q5. What happened when you got a break? Did you blow it like Bill or did you land the job, husband and then blow it? Q6. Who did you drag into: ‘This is it. I am never doing it again’ ? Did they go for help? Did you tell them about help e.g. Al-Anon? [Do not for one minute think they are not hurting.] Q7. Are you in that situation today with a spouse, child, sibling, sponsee, etc? Write on the experience of being on one side and then the other. Shortly afterward I came home drunk. There had been no fight. Where had been my high resolve? I simply didn’t know. It hadn’t even come to mind. Someone had pushed a drink my way, and I had taken it. Was I crazy? I began to wonder, for such an appalling lack of perspective seemed near being just that.’ Q8. Can you relate? Q9. What is your understanding of the addiction cycle? ends
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2/19/2019 0 Comments Recording For February 19, 2019(Week 24) 19 February 2019
12 Step All Addictions Big Book workshop Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: 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. Thursdays literature workshop 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: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and, if needed, request for 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: Sundays 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 3: ‘My drinking assumed more serious proportions…’ until page 4 para 2: ‘This time we stayed broke.’ Soulwork look up: progression remonstrances resourcefulness (Writing in the workshop) Q1. In your active days did anyone talk to you about their concern about your using? Did it terminate in a row? Or did you agree, then drop them as friends? b) Have you been concerned about someone else? c) Has anybody recently referred to an area of your life e.g. working too much or too little, your health, etc. Q2. How did your addiction affect your relationships and your family? There had been no real infidelity. Q3. Can you relate to that? Did you live in vagueness in telling people the truth? Q4. As a food addict, or maybe a clutterer, etc., did you live in denial and compare yourself with others saying: ‘I just eat sugar and flour products. At least I am not driving and drinking?’ I began to be jittery in the morning Q5. Can you relate to Bill’s story? Have you ever been jittery in the morning? My drinking assumed more serious proportions, continuing all day and almost every night. The remonstrances of my friends terminated in a row and I became a lone wolf. There were many unhappy scenes in our sumptuous apartment. There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty to my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes. In 1929 I contracted golf fever. We went at once to the country, my wife to applaud while I started out to overtake Walter Hagen. Liquor caught up with me much faster than I came up behind Walter. I began to be jittery in the morning. Golf permitted drinking every day and every night. It was fun to carom around the exclusive course which had inspired such awe in me as a lad. I acquired the impeccable coat of tan one sees upon the well-to-do. The local banker watched me whirl fat checks in and out of his till with amused skepticism. Q6a). This is a story of progression. How do you identify with the above two paragraphs? b) Did you get into an environment, maybe take a job, where you could do your addiction all day? Q7. How many holes did you dig for yourself thinking you had made it? And do you remember the people God sent to help you out? Q8a). Do you have a fierce determination to win or is it a healthy determination? Or have you just given up? b) How can you use your will power in a healthy way? Q9. Where are you with your EGO - Easing God Out? ends. 2/12/2019 0 Comments Recording For February 12th, 2019(Week 23) 12 February 2019
12 Step All Addictions Big Book workshop Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: 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. Thursdays literature workshop 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: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and, if needed, request for 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: Sundays 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 3: Top of the page until end of second paragraph. Soulwork Look up: scoff. Q1. How do you handle money today? Are you sober with it? Have you grown into being recovered around money? What about in the past? Did you play the big shot in the bar rooms or the bakeries? When you broke out did you throw caution to the wind and take money out of the account? Q2. Were you a spendthrift or extravagant? Did you ever have a job that threw money your way? How did you handle it when you had plenty of money and when you did not? How did money affect your addiction? Give a financial history. Q3. How is it when you receive applause? Can you stay humble or does it go to your head? Perhaps you do the reverse: “If they only knew who I am they would not be giving me applause.” Have you ever been an applause addict? I had arrived. Q4. How many times in your life have you thought that? Drink was taking an important and exhilarating part my life. Q5. xxxxx is taking an exhilarating and important part in my life. I want you to honestly fill in the blank. Q6. Bill so badly wanted to be someone. Do you? Everyone spent in thousands and chattered in millions. Scoffers could scoff and be damned. I made a host of fair-weather friends. Q7. What is your definition of fair weather friends? Do you have friends like this? Q8. When people you think are wise, give suggestions, say about your money, food plan, retirement, to leave your husband, get married, etc, do you scoff? Or are you willing to look at what they are saying and take it to Quiet Time? ends 2/5/2019 0 Comments Recording For February 5, 2019(Week 22) 5 February 2019
12 Step All Addictions Big Book workshop Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: 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. Thursdays: literature workshop 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: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and, if needed, request for 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: Sundays 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 2: para 2 Soulwork look up: grip, maelstrom, forge, impulsivity The inviting maelstrom of Wall Street had me in its grip. Business and financial leaders were my heroes. Out of this alloy of drink and speculation, I commenced to forge the weapon that one day would turn in its flight like a boomerang and all but cut me to ribbons. 1. When you were young what had you in its grip? Business and financial leaders were my heroes. Q2. Who are/were your heroes? Where do you spend your time and money? [This says who you really are.] The drive for success was on. I’d prove to the world I was important….Many people lost money - but some became ver rich. Why not I? Q3. Bill is seeing grandiosity. Can you relate to that? Do you think differently now? Q4. Impulsivity: Going against what others say is reasonable. Keeping in mind your past history, what are the tools needed in sobriety to keep you on the road of reasonableness? ends |
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