The hope and promises of the AA 12 step program in the Book "Alcoholics Anonymous"

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If anyone with a drinking problem or thinks they may be alcoholic is interested there is a book available at https://aa.org titled "Alcoholics Anonymous" The first portion of this book contains the AA 12 step program for recovery from alcoholism. Within that text are a number of promises given for following the instructions. I maintain an AA discussion blog. If anyone is interested in some highlights of the hopeful message it has given to millions of recovered alcoholics world wide I invite you to read my post which extracts all the promises corresponding to each one of the steps. Cheers and I hope anyone with a drinking problem or may think they have alcoholism might find some hope with AA.

 

The promises associated with each step as found in the book Alcoholics Anonymous

 

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Thank you for the "thanks" reactions. It's my experience that there are a lot more promises than what some people in AA meetings call the "12 promises". Those are in actuality the 9th step promises. There are promises for every one of the 12 steps in AA and my blog post points some of those out. I have had the benefit of good sponsorship from men who really studied the AA approved literature thoroughly and passed their knowledge on to me.

 

IMHO -- This is why it's a good idea to read (even better to study) the AA book Alcoholics Anonymous and also go to meetings for any alcoholic looking to get recovery from the fatal illness. My advice is to stick with official AA literature. It is time tested and works. There are many authors seeking to profit from publishing their own recovery books that, in my experience, are a distortion of the true program outlined in the good old AA basic texts.

 

Some meetings have many people with good intentions but many of them don't take the time to really study the literature of the fellowship. The book "Alcoholics Anonymous" and the book "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions".

 

The best thing that ever happened to me is I stumbled upon a man who was in a meeting of AA when I was floundering in recovery. I was not drinking but not very happy.. I had no sponsor so I asked this fellow to sponsor me. His sharing was no nonsense and was different than the usual. He bought me a a large text AA book and told me that if I wanted his help that we were going to study it. It was a huge turning point in my life; all for the better. We studied that book sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph. I thought I was a smart guy but I learned something humbling. That I missed a lot just reading the book. In fact I missed most of it! Until I studied it with this man, who gave his time freely, I never really knew the true program of AA. Now I understand just how much of a blessing I was given. I'm not religious but it changed my life spiritually. Life really took on a new meaning and, better yet, I was now able to help other alcoholics in a way I never knew I could.

 

So I pass this message along to anyone looking for recovery from alcoholism. AA has a way. It may not be the only way but is sure worked well for me so far.