SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES IN ACTION
This principle means telling the truth, even when it’s hard.
Honesty
This is what many addicts find for the first time in recovery — a place to belong.
Fellowship
This person helps guide us through the Steps and shares their experience.
Sponsor
Recovery helps us identify and manage these, instead of escaping them.
Our Feelings
The first milestone most members celebrate.
30 days clean
This principle means trusting that things will work out.
Faith
We learn to replace self-destruction with this kind of living.
Purposeful living
When choosing a sponsor, we look for someone who has this.
Clean time and experience living the program?
This feeling often replaces shame as we begin to heal.
Self Worth
What is the most important milestone
The Newcomer/24 hour key tag
This principle is practiced when we treat others how we’d like to be treated.
Respect
When we stop trying to control people, places, and things, we find this.
Peace
A sponsor doesn’t fix our problems — they share this instead.
Their experience, strength, and hope
When we stop reacting and start responding, we’re practicing this.
Emotional maturity
This anniversary reminds us how far we’ve come.
Clean Time
This principle helps us show up and do what we say we will.
Responsibility
This gift comes from living in alignment with our values.
Serenity
This principle makes sponsorship work — both people show up honestly.
Trust
We learn that it’s okay to feel this — it’s not weakness, it’s courage.
Vulnerability
The milestone many call a “miracle”
Year One
This principle means showing love through service without expecting anything back.
Selflessness
This phrase describes how recovery grows when we pass it on.
“we keep what we have by giving it away”
Sponsorship teaches us that recovery is something we can only do this way.
Together
Working the Steps helps us heal emotionally by doing this.
Facing ourselves honestly
This milestone means you’ve been living recovery long enough to sponsor others.
Long term recovery/working knowledge of the steps