Big Book Step Study Workshop: Recent Episodes
Stephanie
Our new website is available at http://thursday.12stepstudyworkshop.com/. Please bookmark this. The writing assignments and recordings available there.
Download MP3 » Week Twenty Recording February 5, 2009 Audio for Week 20 Feb 5, 2009 Please be patient, it is a large file and can take several minutes to start playing. You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
Words: solemn oath, sanitarium, asylum, abruptly, humiliated, lurking Questions: How many times did you try to quit your addiction by using your own will power? Share about your experiences. What is your will power good for now?
Download MP3 » Week Nineteen Recording January 29, 2009 Audio for Week 19 Jan 29, 2009 Please be patient, it is a large file and can take several minutes to start playing. You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
Writing assignment #1: Read Big Book page 30, Paragraph 2: “We learned that we had to fully concede to our inner most selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.” Is there any delusion left […]
In the Twelve and Twelve: Question 1: Read Paragraph 2, Page 21. No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete. Write about […]
Download MP3 » Week Eighteen Recording January 22, 2009 Audio for Week 18 Jan 22, 2009 Please be patient, it is a large file and can take several minutes to start playing. You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
Download MP3 » Week Seventeen Recording January 15, 2009 Audio for Week 17 Jan 15, 2009 Please be patient, it is a large file and can take several minutes to start playing. You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
From the AA 12 & 12 on page 15: paragraph #3 AA’s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole. 1. Take each of the twelve steps and […]
Write about the two parts of step one 1. I admit that I am powerless over ____ 2. Life unmanageable ____
Writing assignment: 1. Page 14 ‘Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid’ 1. what’s simple – 2. what’s not easy. 3. what’s the price you have to pay. 2. “It means destruction of self-centeredness.” 1. What does this means to you, and what have been your experience.
Download MP3 » Week Sixteen Recording January 8, 2009 Audio for Week 16 Jan 8, 2009 Please be patient, it is a large file and can take several minutes to start playing. You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
There will be a new big book step study meeting starting on Monday, April 6, 2009 at 2:30PM EST. The telephone number and code is in the right column of this website.
Please note: There was a recording created for the meeting which was held on January 1, 2009. We will post it as soon as it is available.
Download MP3 » Week Fifteen Recording December 26, 2008 Audio for Week 15 Dec 26, 2008 Please be patient, it is a large file and can take several minutes to start playing. You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
Words:unreservedly appallingly 1. page 12 Paragraph 5 “For a brief moment,…………… Take each sentence and write about your experience with what Bill is feeling and saying in his story. 2. Page 13 Paragraph 2 “There I humbly offered…………… Do the same thing as above. Write about your experience with what Bill did in surrendering to […]
Download MP3 » Week Fourteen Recording December 18, 2008 Audio for Week 14 Dec 18, 2008 Please be patient, it is a large file and can take several minutes to start playing. You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
Words: vestiges prejudice antipathy Writing: 1.In twelve step recovery fellowships we must surrender to win (Step 1) What does this mean to you? What has been your experience with surrendering and winning? What has been your experience with not surrendering? 2. Write on: “Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?” What is your […]
Download MP3 » Week Thirteen Recording December 11, 2008 Audio for Week 13 Dec 11, 2008 Please be patient, it is a large file and can take several minutes to start playing. You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
Thursdays Words: atheist chicanery trudging incurable 1. How do you feel about having a personal relationship with God? 2. The 12 steps are moral code for living. To experience a spiritual recovery one must live this way of life in all their affairs, and not adopt those parts which seem inconvenient and too difficult. Am […]
Download MP3 » Week Twelve Recording December 4, 2008 Audio for Week 12 Dec 4, 2008 You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
Thursdays words: sots morass debauch catapulted proffered temperance Writing assignment: We are on page 8 of Bill’s story “No words can tell of the loneliness and despair I found in that bitter morass of self-pity. Quicksand stretched around me in all directions. I had met my match. I had been overwhelmed. Alcohol was my master.” […]
Writing assignment: delirium tremens prodigious cocksureness oblivion questions 1. page 5 Paragraph #4: “I woke up. This had to be stopped. I saw I could not take so much as one drink. I was through forever. ……..Shortly afterward I came home drunk. There had been no fight. Where had been my high resolve? I simply […]
Download MP3 » Week Eleven Recording November 28, 2008 Audio for Week 11 Nov 28, 2008 You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
First to answer a question I received this week: Yes, it is o.k. to pass on the “set aside” prayer. In fact it is a act of loving kindness to do so, for it helps a person become teachable and humble and learn what their Higher Power wants them to learn. The author is unknown […]
Download MP3 » Week Ten Recording November 20, 2008 Audio for Week 10 Nov 20, 2008 You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
Words: precipitates caldron seething entire pathological deterioration scoff sublime fancied writing assignment: 1. What constitutes “entire abstinence” for you and for your fellowship? 2. “I (Bill W) was very lonely and again turned to alcohol?” What did you turn to when you were lonely? Explore how loneliness has contributed to you picking up your addiction […]
Download MP3 » Week Nine Recording November 13, 2008 Audio for Week 9 Nov 13, 2008 You can also subscribe through the RSS feed and listen through iTunes. You can also listen at Odeo Podcasts Website.
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