AA Basics
This fellowship was founded to help alcoholics stay sober by sharing experience, strength, and hope.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
This Step begins with admitting we were powerless over alcohol.
What is Step One?
This is a place where alcoholics gather to share and support each other in sobriety.
What is an AA meeting?
This defect makes everything about me, my wants, and my way.
What is selfishness?
This means staying away from the first drink, no matter what.
What is abstinence?
This is the suggested program of action used in AA to recover from alcoholism.
What are the Twelve Steps?
This Step asks us to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step Two?
This simple tool means reaching out instead of isolating when we are struggling.
What is making a phone call?
This defect tells us we are either better than others or worse than others.
What is pride?
This action helps others and gets us out of self
What is service?
This person helps guide someone through the Twelve Steps using their own experience.
What is a sponsor?
This Step is about making a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him.
What is Step Three?
This recovery action helps us pause, ask for guidance, and stay connected spiritually.
What is prayer?
This feeling can grow when we replay old hurts and refuse to let them go.
What is resentment?
This means telling the truth even when it is uncomfortable.
What is honesty?
This common AA saying reminds us to focus only on staying sober today.
What is one day at a time?
This Step involves making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step Four?
This recovery habit helps us reflect on our thoughts, actions, and motives.
What is inventory?
This solution means being honest about our part instead of blaming everyone else.
What is accountability?
This practice helps us accept life as it is instead of fighting everything.
What is acceptance?
This AA book shares the basic text and program of recovery for alcoholics.
What is the Big Book?
This Step involves carrying the message to other alcoholics and practicing these principles in all our affairs.
What is Step Twelve?
This tool helps us stop trying to control everything and accept help from a Higher Power.
What is surrender?
This principle helps us become teachable and willing to ask for help
What is humility?
This is the spiritual change that happens when we work the Steps and begin living differently.
What is a spiritual awakening?