Steps
We decide to turn will over to a higher power.
What is Step 3?
The primary founder of A.A.
Who is Bill W.?
Our common welfare should come first: personal recovery depends on A.A. unity.
What is Tradition 1?
The place where A.A. was founded by Bill W.
What is Akron, Ohio?
The goal of people entering A.A.
What is sobriety/abstinence?
We become ready to have higher power remove shortcomings.
What is Step 6?
The one we seek to improve our conscious contact with.
Who is Higher Power?
The only requirement for A.A. membership is the desire to stop using.
What is Tradition 3?
Bill W.'s wife.
Who is Lois Burnham/Wilson?
A feeling of peace that comes from surrendering.
What is Serenity?
We take personal inventory and promptly admit wrongs on a continuous basis.
What is Step 10?
One the earliest members of A.A.'s first black group and a physician.
Who is Jim?
Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
What is Traditions 7?
The organization from which A.A. sprang from.
What is the Oxford Group?
A thought pattern that results in thinking about the same thing over and over.
What is Obsession?
We ask a higher power to remove shortcomings in a humble manner.
What is Step 7?
The Doctor who wrote The Doctor's Opinion in the Big Book.
Who is William D. Silkworth, M.D.?
Anonymity is the foundation of all our traditions.
What is Traditions 12?
The original name for the Big Book.
What is "Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism"?
The three main things to avoid in order to maintain recovery.
What are People, Places, and Things?
We carry the message to other suffering addicts/alcoholics and practice principles in all our affairs.
What is Step 12?
Those whose homes have been battle-grounds man evenings.
Who are the wives/spouses?
Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
What is Tradition 10?
The name of the other alcoholic Bill W. spoke with to form A.A.
Who is Bob Smith?
The three things needed to begin working a program of recovery.
What are Willingness, Honesty, and Open-mindedness?