Reading: Big Book pg 4

words: phenomenon, powerlessness,suffices, frothy, temperate, craving

1. What is your step 1 fellowship? Do you have a home group? If not, why? Do you have a step one sponsor? If not, why?

2. Are you a chronic addict? Do you have the manifestation of an allergy? 3 Have you experienced the phenomenon of craving for your addiction?

3. Do you know people in your step 1 fellowship that this craving does not happen to?

4. What substances set up the manifestation of an allergy that sets off the phenomenon of craving in your life?

5. How has your addiction allowed you to lose your self confidence?

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Words: synthetic, chronic, epoch

Questions:

1. Write abut the threefold illness, the physical side, the emotional side, and the spiritual side. What is the progression of getting well?

2. Get a copy or pamphlet of the “tools” or “plan of action”.

3. What are your practical applications that you need to do everyday and what are the practical applications that you do everyday?

4. What were you like before recovery? How did you find recovery? What are you like today? Write your story in the three parts.

5. What does unselfishness mean to you and what does it look like in your life?

6. Have you established a quiet time? What does it look like and are you doing it no matter what?

7. Were you a hopeless addict?

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Words: allergy, altruistic, imperative, paramount, afflicted, masterly, moral

Soul Work Questions:

Question 1 – Why is the doctor’s theory that we have an allergy to ______ (fill in your addiction) needs to be of interest to us?

Question 2 – Can you explain the allergy to someone?
b) Does this explanation  make good sense to me?
c) Does it explain many things for which you cannot otherwise account?

Question 3 – Write about your very first day, about your very first week, and write about how you went from very jittery and befogged.

Question 4 – Dr. Silkworth tells us doctors and psychology are not successful and why I need my step one fellowship – why I can’t just depend on doctors and therapy. And why I need my step one fellowship. Write on that.

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Reading: “The Doctor’s Opinion” pg 2 (xxvi)

Words: Abnormal, Maladjusted.

Questions:

1. Why does Bill say, “You must believe that the body of the ________________ (alcoholic, over eater, addict, clutterer) is quite as abnormal as his mind.”
2. When did you know that your were abnormal about your addiction(s)? Did you see how being abnormal with your addiction made you maladjusted to life?
3. How can your quiet time help you become adjusted to life?
4. Why would we want to leave out the physical factor in our recovery?

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Soul work:

1. Read Preface and Forward to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th edition. Write a brief summary.

2. Write on what is your plan of recovery today? and for your tomorrows?

3. What type of alcoholic are you? Moderate, problematic, or hopeless?

Words: Convincing, Google Dr. Silkworth.

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Recording for January 12, 2012

Callback number:
641-715-3900
95666#

Step 1 – Forward XIII-XIV

Words: authentication, anonymous, avocation, honest, desire.

Questions:

1. Do you have an honest desire to stop your addiction?

2. What action plan do you need to put into place to fulfill your honest desire to stop your addiction?

3. Who are you going to use as accountability. Be specific; name, number, etc.

4. Do you think there should be any other requirement for membership in your step one fellowship, except an honest desire to stop using your drug/addiction?

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FORWARD TO FIRST EDITION pg XIII

Get a three ring note book and 3 holed paper to use for your writing assignments.

Words: textbook, recovered. (Look up the Oxford Group)

Questions:

1. Write on the concept of the “Spiritual We” and share this concept with someone other than your B.B.S.S.W. buddy.

2. Write on what is the connection between being recovered from a seemingly hopeless state and living in the spiritual we.

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We will be covering Steps One through Twelve in this workshop. We meet in a phone conference once a week at the number below. The call back number is also below which will have the last week’s recording only.

Here is the information:
Call-in number: 712-432-8816
pin: 32450#

Call-back number: 641-715-3900
pin: 95666#