Twelve Steps To A Slip

Every Slip Has A Beginning, and every slip has an ending.
Know Your Danger Signals!

Make the ending of your slip Recovery not death!
Relapse is a serious and sometimes fatal reality.

1. Start missing meetings for any reason, real or imaginary.

2. Become critical of the methods used by other members who may not agree with you in everything.

3. Nurse the idea that someday, somehow, you can drink or drug again in a controlled manner.

4. Let the others do the 12th step work in your group. You are too busy.

5. Become conscious of your AA/NA "Seniority" and view every member with a skeptical and jaundiced eye.

6. Become so pleased with your own views of the program that you consider yourself an "Elder Statesman"

7. Start a small clique within your own group, composed of only a few members who see eye to eye with you.

8. Tell the new member in confidence that you yourself do not not take certain of the 12 Steps seriously.

9. Let your mind dwell more and more on how much you are helping others rather than on how much the program is helping you.

10. If an unfortunate member has a slip, drop him at once.

11. Cultivate the habit of borrowing money from other members, then stay away from meetings to avoid embarrassment.

12. Look upon the 24 hour plan as a vital thing for new members, but not for yourself. You have outgrown the need of that a long time ago.

Most importantly always remember we can all have a another relapse, but we cannot be guaranteed another recovery.

Recovery Zone

Signs

NO TIME

I knelt to pray but not for long,
I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now done
My soul could rest at ease.....
All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer
No time to speak of God to friends,
They'd laugh at me I'd fear.
No time, no time, too much to do,
That was my constant cry,
No time to give to souls in need
But at last the time, the time to die.
I went before the Lord,
I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in his hands God! held a book;
It was the book of life.
God looked into his book and said
"Your name I cannot find
I once was going to write it down...
But never found the time"

IT PAYS TO DRINK?

People who drink alcohol earn 10 to 14 percent more at their jobs than nondrinkers, say researchers who studied drinking's "social capital."

"Social drinkers are out networking, building relationships and adding contacts," said Edward Stringham, study co-author and San Jose State University professor.
The findings appear in The Journal of Labor Research. Source

Twelve Steps of a Relapse

1. I decided I could handle any emotional problems if other people would just quit trying to run my life.
   
2. I firmly believe that there is no greater power than myself and anyone who says differently is insane.
   
3. I made a searching and thorough moral inventory of everyone I know, so they couldn't fool me and take advantage of my good nature.
   
4. I sought these people out and tried to get them to admit to me, by God, the exact nature of their wrongs.
   
5. I became willing to help these people get rid of their defects of character.
   
6. I was humble enough to ask these people to remove their shortcomings.
   
7. I kept a list of all the people who had harmed me, and waited patiently for a chance to get even.
   
8. I got even with these people whenever possible except when to do so would get me into trouble.
   
9. I continue to take everyone's inventory and when they are wrong, which is most of the time, I promptly make them admit it.
   
10. Sought through the concentration of my willpower to get God, who didn't understand me anyhow, to see that my desires were best, and He ought to give me the power to carry them out.
    
11. Having maintained my emotional problems with these steps, I can thoroughly recommend them to others who don't want to lose their hard-earned status, but wish to be left alone to practice neurosis in everything they do for the rest of their days. Victor Valley March Newsletter page 2.

Riddle

You are driving in a car at a constant speed.
On your left side is a 'drop off'
(The ground is 18-20 inches below the level you are traveling on),
and on your right side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you.
In front of you is a galloping horse which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is another galloping horse.
Both horses are also traveling at the same speed as you.
What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?

For the answer click and drag your mouse from star to star.
* Get your drunk ass off the merry-go-round. *