Steps
Big Book Characters
Traditions
General Info
Keywords
100

We decide to turn will over to a higher power.

What is Step 3?

100

The primary founder of A.A.

Who is Bill W.?

100

Our common welfare should come first: personal recovery depends on A.A. unity.

What is Tradition 1?

100

The place where A.A. was founded by Bill W.

What is Akron, Ohio?

100

The goal of people entering A.A.

What is sobriety/abstinence?

200

We become ready to have higher power remove shortcomings.

What is Step 6?

200

The one we seek to improve our conscious contact with.

Who is Higher Power?

200

The only requirement for A.A. membership is the desire to stop using.

What is Tradition 3?

200

Bill W.'s wife.

Who is Lois Burnham/Wilson?

200

A feeling of peace that comes from surrendering.

What is Serenity?

300

We take personal inventory and promptly admit wrongs on a continuous basis.

What is Step 10?

300

One the earliest members of A.A.'s first black group and a physician.

Who is Jim?

300

Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

What is Traditions 7?

300

The organization from which A.A. sprang from.

What is the Oxford Group?

300

A thought pattern that results in thinking about the same thing over and over.

What is Obsession?

400

We ask a higher power to remove shortcomings in a humble manner.

What is Step 7?

400

The Doctor who wrote The Doctor's Opinion in the Big Book.

Who is William D. Silkworth, M.D.?

400

Anonymity is the foundation of all our traditions.

What is Traditions 12?

400

The original name for the Big Book.

What is "Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism"?

400

The three main things to avoid in order to maintain recovery.

What are People, Places, and Things?

500

We carry the message to other suffering addicts/alcoholics and practice principles in all our affairs.

What is Step 12?

500

Those whose homes have been battle-grounds man evenings.

Who are the wives/spouses?

500

Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

What is Tradition 10?

500

The name of the other alcoholic Bill W. spoke with to form A.A.

Who is Bob Smith?

500

The three things needed to begin working a program of recovery.

What are Willingness, Honesty, and Open-mindedness?