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There was a time when we ignored trouble,
hoping it would go away;
Or in fear & depression, we ran from it.
These mistaken attitudes guaranteed our destruction.
Then came recovery.
We found that our troubles could be converted
into unimagined blessings.
...Adapted from a letter from Bill W. 1966

12 Step Recovery

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We are a group of people recovering in 12-Step Programs who post and chat online in fellowship and support. Our most active group is AA (no surprise there) but we are eager to build our NA and ACOA support groups and hope you will help us to do so. Please post on the newsgroups and visit us in chat. We share experience, strength, hope, fellowship and tons of laughs with each other. All in recovery (or thinking about whether or not you should be) are welcome -- we look forward to seeing you there! (We are not a glum lot!) :-)

The Promises:
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook on life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They will always materialize if we work for them.

--Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83-84