Summary: Soul Work Thursday 11/01/2012 Chapter 3, More about Alcoholism - page 30 paragraph 1- thru paragraph 3. Words: Vain, Persistence, Illusion, Astonishing, Fully Concede, Delusion, Pitiful, Incomprehensible, Demoralization Questions: 1) Why isn’t my Quiet Time a way of life for me? 2) What is the resistance to having a QT? 3) Do you believe that having a relationship with a God of Your Understanding is what the 12 Step Study process is all about? 4) Are you willing to admit that you are bodily different than others? 4 a) Are you willing to admit that you are mentally different than others? 5) Do you still obsess that someday you’re going to be able to go to …ex. a party and drink a fancy cocktail, or buffet and eat without weighing? What is your great obsession? 6) What are you obsessing about? … putting your time and energy into? 7) Can you relate to the story I just told you? Identify and own where you are at? About holding resentments, gossiping, 10th step, hangover, and living in recovery by sharing our experience. 8) Are you in delusion about what you can handle in any behavior, people, or substance? 9) What was the last delusion you were in? Write it out. How did you or how are you resolving it in a healthy way? How did it affect your food, sobriety, sleep, etc. … 10) Was your illness progressive? Write out your story. Notes (week 44) 1 November 2012 Big Book Step Study – notes on the workshop More About Alcoholism, page 30 from start of the chapter: ‘Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics…’ until end of 3rd paragraph: ‘Over any considerable period we get worse, never better.’ Stephanie encourages us to go to the handout page at: www12stepstudy.com and read ‘slips’ by William Silkworth – AA conference approved literature. Dial 641 715 3900 pin 95666# if you cannot make the live workshop. Third Step Prayer. Set Aside Prayer (see website for handout of the Big Book references for this). Donation for the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 64 Hanover MA 02339 As Stephanie has been saying every week since this workshop began in January, Quiet Time is vital. Q1 Why isn’t my Quiet Time a way of life for me? Q2 What is the resistance to having a Quiet Time? Q3 Do I believe that having a relationship with a God of my understanding is what the Big Book Step Study workshop is all about. If you are having trouble with a Quiet Time see the website for the 12-week Trust and Rely workshop. Call 641 715 3900 pin 97200#. Each week a new led Quiet Time half hour is available. You can do it with Stephanie until you get on your feet and it is part of your life as it is today for Stephanie. It took her a long time to see that having a relationship with God could replace one with the dysfunction of addiction. In Stephanie’s opinion that is the Big Book’s answer. Recommend listen on the playback (same phone no. + pin 95546#) for Katie speaking about a higher power and Step 10 at last Tuesday’s Big Book meeting. The live meeting is Tuesdays 3-4 EST on same tel.no. and pin. Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics This means you are unwilling to admit that you need God to stop your addiction. There are many people who say they are an alcoholic but they think that going to meetings and doing the tools will keep you sober. They may not drink but will be a dry drunk. Stephanie doesn’t want to be a dry drunk. She wants to live so that she can be happy joyous and free and have others ask “what the heck do you do. You don’t drink and you’re happy?” A real alcoholic is willing to admit that they cannot stay clean of their addiction and they cannot have the joy of living by just going to meetings and working the tools. Stephanie says just about every week how important going to meetings and working the tools are. She does this on a daily basis as she is not cured, but she does not just rely on that.
