12 Steps of Recovery: Recent Episodes
"i am an alcoholic"
12 Steps of Recovery is a limited podcast series helping alcoholics & addicts understand the Big Book (4th ed.) and Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in order to achieve permanent sobriety. Each ad-free episode examines a Step from the literature—and Ilya shares his experience, strength, and hope as it relates to the reading. Because everybody deserves a real chance at staying sober!
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An examination of having & keeping a spiritual awakening vs. being trapped in our disease.
An examination of how & why we try to carry this message of Alcoholics Anonymous to newcomers.
“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."
Examining how Steps 10&11 are interwoven to achieve conscious contact with your Higher Power.
A summary of the previous nine Steps and why we continue to grow in effectiveness and understanding.
"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."
"Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."
"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
Dr. William D. Silkworth, a chief physician at a nationally prominent hospital writes a letter endorsing the 12 Steps.