12-Step Workbook for Recovering Alcoholics, Including Powerful 4Th-Step Worksheets: 2015 Revised Edition

By Iam Pastal

This workbook for recovering alcoholics is a great resource for anyone who wants to quit drinking alcohol for good! It follows a 12-step program that contains actionable advice, helpful activities, and useful prayers for recovery.

This quit lit book is also based on the author’s experience recovering and working with Alcoholic Anonymous, an organization devoted to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504329675

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Copyright © 2015 Iam Pastal.

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I wish to thank Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. for permission to reprint the Twelve Steps as well as other information from their literature. This does not mean that Alcoholics Anonymous World Services has reviewed the contents of this publication nor agrees with the views expressed herein.

Iam Pastal is one of millions of drunks who was able to stop drinking thanks to AA and God.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-2966-8 (sc)

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Balboa Press rev. date: 08/07/2015

CONTENTS

From The Author

Step 1 - We Admitted We Were Powerless Over Alcohol - That Our Lives Had Become Unmanageable

Step 2 - Came To Believe That A Power Greater Than Ourselves Could Restore Us To Sanity

STEP 3 - Made A Decision To Turn Our Will And Our Lives Over To The Care Of God As We Understood Him

Step 4 - Made A Searching And Fearless Moral Inventory Of Ourselves

Step 5 - Admitted To God, To Ourselves, And To Another Human Being The Exact Nature Of Our Wrongs

Step 6 - Were Entirely Ready To Have God Remove All These Defects Of Character

Step 7 - Humbly Asked Him To Remove Our Shortcomings

Step 8 - Made A List Of All Persons We Had Harmed, And Became Willing To Make Amends To Them All

Step 9 - Made Direct Amends To Such People Wherever Possible, Except When To Do So Would Injure Them Or Others

Step 10 - Continued To Take Personal Inventory And When We Were Wrong Promptly Admitted It

Step 11