by Fiona Stockard | Sep 12, 2014 | 12 Steps
Written By: Fiona Stockard The Basic Text Broken Down – Part Four Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who help each other recover from drug and alcohol addiction. It was founded in July of 1953, just celebrated its sixty-first anniversary, and...
by Fiona Stockard | Sep 5, 2014 | 12 Steps
Written By: Fiona Stockard The Big Book Broken Down – Part Four Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who help each other to recover from alcohol and drug addiction. It was founded in June of 1935, just celebrated its seventy-ninth anniversary, and...
by Sally Rosa | Sep 3, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Recovery Can Be Overwhelming Getting sober is scary! We’re thrown into a new location, told to change people, places and things (this means change everything!), and begin to reach out to other sober people. We begin to experience feelings again. Basically, we...
by Fiona Stockard | Aug 29, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Fiona Stockard The Basic Text Broken Down – Part Three Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who help each other recover from drug and alcohol addiction. It was founded in July of 1953, just celebrated its sixty-first anniversary, and...
by Fiona Stockard | Aug 22, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Fiona Stockard The Big Book Broken Down – Part Three Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who help each other to recover from alcohol and drug addiction. It was founded in June of 1935, just celebrated its seventy-ninth anniversary, and...
by Fiona Stockard | Aug 15, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Fiona Stockard The Basic Text Broken Down – Part Two Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who help each other recover from drug and alcohol addiction. It was founded in July of 1953, just celebrated its sixty-first anniversary, and...
by Fiona Stockard | Aug 7, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Fiona Stockard The Big Book Broken Down – Part Two Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who help each other to recover from alcohol and drug addiction. It was founded in June of 1935, just celebrated its seventy-ninth anniversary, and...
by Fiona Stockard | Aug 1, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Fiona Stockard The Basic Text Broken Down – Part One Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who help each other recover from drug and alcohol addiction. It was founded in July of 1953, just celebrated its sixty-first anniversary, and...
by Fiona Stockard | Jul 25, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Fiona Stockard The Big Book Broken Down – Part One Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who help each other to recover from alcohol and drug addiction. It was founded in June of 1935, just celebrated its seventy-ninth anniversary,...
by Fiona Stockard | Jul 21, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Katie Schipper The Steps to Recovery Aren’t the Same for Everyone Opinions on Taking Twelve-Steps to Recovery Outside opinions on the inner-workings of twelve-step fellowships range from mild curiosity, to total disinterest, to insistence that...
by Sally Rosa | Jun 30, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Anjelica G Articles are the sole work of the individual author and do not express the opinion of Sobriety for Women You Want Me to What?! I came to a halt at step three. “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of god as we...
by Fiona Stockard | Jun 23, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Katie Schipper Busting the Myths of Quitting Tobacco in Early-Sobriety Giving up drugs and alcohol is hard. If it were easy, then we wouldn’t need treatment, and twelve-step fellowships, and therapy, and IOP, and so on. Getting sober is really hard. Giving...
by Sally Rosa | May 27, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Katie Schipper What is Sponsorship? In twelve-step recovery programs, sponsorship is vital. A sponsor has a singular purpose – to take another alcoholic or addict through the twelve-steps so that that woman may in turn take others through the steps....
by Sally Rosa | Apr 28, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Fiona Stockard Made a Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory of Ourselves “A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke. Taking commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process. It is an effort to discover the truth about...
by Sally Rosa | Apr 14, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
What Does Resting On Your Laurels Even Mean? That’s a good question! Resting on your laurels is when you’re so satisfied with your achievements that you stop growing. You stop making an attempt to grow in the image and likeness of God as you understand...
by Sally Rosa | Apr 11, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Fiona Stockard “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.” What’s The Definition of Powerlessness and Unmanageability The definition of powerless is “being unable to do something, or unable...
by Sally Rosa | Mar 25, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Written By: Fiona Stockard Twelve-Step Meetings Keep Us Sober! Going to your first meeting sucks! It’s nerve-wracking, scary, overwhelming, and generally unpleasant all around. We don’t know what to expect, how to act, or when to speak. Basically,...
by Sally Rosa | Jan 20, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
The Invaluable Task of Making Amends When I think about the ninth step, I think about god. I can’t help it! During the ninth step is when god came to me. It says in the Big Book that god comes to some slowly and to some all at once. I was blessed to have a...
by A Women in Sobriety | Jul 28, 2013 | 12 Steps
Listening is the Hardest Part Al-Anon has taught me that pray requires listening. One of our slogans is Listen and Learn. Another is Progress Not Perfection. Another is Recovery is a Verb. Okay, I made that last one up. It’s good, isn’t it! In Al-Anon...
by A Women in Sobriety | Jul 20, 2013 | 12 Steps
A Voice From Al-Anon Meetings of Al-Anon and ACA are helping me to recover myself. See, I’d wandered into a swamp of confusion and crisis. This swamp was twenty year marriage, during which I drank right alongside my handsome, fun-loving husband. My husband and I...
by A Women in Sobriety | Jul 18, 2013 | 12 Steps
My Name is Ruth and My Husband’s a Drinker “I met Lois in Mt. Kisco, at my first meeting. She was clever and cute. At first she said, ‘My name is Lois, what’s yours?’ Then she said, ‘Welcome, we have a message for you we will give you at the end of the...
by Sally Rosa | Jun 27, 2013 | 12 Steps
When I came to, metaphorically and literally, in my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, I knew I’d met my match. See, even at twenty years old, sitting in a musty room with people double and triple my age, I felt at home. Not at home like when I sank into my bed...
by Sally Rosa | Dec 21, 2012 | 12 Steps, Addiction Treatment
Being the Mother of an Addict Isn’t Easy I’ve been on the journey of recovery with my daughter for six years. Today she celebrates twenty months sober! That’s almost two years. Remember, I said we’ve been on this journey for six. My daughter,...
