Step by Step. Группа авторов

Coming Back April 1991

       Sharing Hope February 1993

       Free Thinking Allowed March 1998

       An Atheist Lets Go June 1998

       Step Four

       Southern AA August 1950

       It Takes What it Takes June 1978

       Taking Stock November 1979

       Burn that Trash! June 1984

       Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall October 1987

       Naming the Negatives April 1997

       The Other Man's Inventory April 2007

       Heard at Meetings March 2008

       Number One Offender October 2008

       At Wit's End November 2009

       Her Own Part April 2010

       Step Five

       The Fifth Step—a Way to Stay High June 1974

       Finding Self-Forgiveness October 1977

       List Our Assets? July 1979

       Short Takes July 1980

       A 5,000–Mile Discussion December 1982

       Ham on Wry November 2000

       Lifting the Burden May 2001

       As Real as I Can Be May 2003

       Ugly Words May 2010

       Step Six

       Wrinkles in My Ego October 1979

       Are We Really Willing to Change? December 1980

       Don't Skip Over Six December 1993

       Making Room to Grow Up June 1997

       As Long as I Stay Willing June 2009

       I'm No Saint! June 2009

       My Armor June 2010

       Step Seven

       Little Surrenders August 1982

       Mail Call: Step Seven November 1949

       Food for the Journey July 2007

       Ham on Wry May 1996

       The Rose July 1991

       Rock Bottom July 2009

       A Lifetime Supply July 1995

       Freedom from Fear July 2000

       Step Eight

       On the Eighth Step June 1945

       Not Under the Rug January 1967

       Persons We Had Harmed September 1979

       The Eighth Step October 1977

       Ham on Wry January 1990

       Thinking It Through August 2001

       Step Nine

       Rewards of Step Nine April 1979

       The Amends I Most Dreaded to Make August 1977

       Right to the Edge April 2006

       A Pat on the Back September 2001

       Scene of the Crime September 1993

       I Stole the Wallet August 2010

       Heard at Meetings February 2009

       Step Ten

       Like a Ship at Sea October 1950

       The Tenth Step December 1975

       It Takes Practice to Be Human December 1977

       In the Heat of Anger September 1983

       The Peace Process December 1996

       Wrong Turn October 1999

       Daily Reminder December 2006

       Safety Valve October 2010

       Step Eleven

       Not Taking the First Drink October 1978

       Rewards of Meditation February 1982

       Freeing the Spirit February 1984

       Should We Go Easy on the God Stuff? April 2002

       Clean Slate February 2009

       From Foxhole to Light March 2008

       Finding My Way April 2009

       Alcoholic's Meditation November 2010

       Step Twelve

       Carrying the Message April 1971

       Practice the Principles June 1981

       The Woman Who Had Everything December 1993

       Got It? Give It. Forget It! December 1998

       The Luck of the Draw June 2002

       How to Give a Lead July 2005

       E–Stepping: Carrying the Message Online December 2005

       Memory Motel March 2007

       Tattoo August 2007

       The Twelve Steps

       The Twelve Traditions

       About AA and AA Grapevine

Welcome

      “The joy of good living.”

      This is the theme of AA's Twelfth Step, according to the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. But most AAs would probably agree that this is the theme of all of the Steps.

      The Steps have been called inspired by God. “I doubt if the Twelve Steps that have changed the course of existence for so many thousands of lives could have been the mere product of human insight and observation. And they can and will bless anyone, alcoholic or not, who will follow them through and be obedient to them. They are morally and spiritually and psychologically and practically as sound as can be,” wrote Dr. Samuel Shoemaker, the Episcopal clergyman who helped in the founding of AA, in the Grapevine in 1964. “I often say and shall always say that the Twelve Steps are one of the very great summaries and organic collections of spiritual truth known to history. … Herein is spiritual wisdom and health. We have had to look deep within, probe, burrow, struggle, and in a sense this never stops.”

      Initially, there were six Steps, which co-founder Bill W. expanded into 12 in the process of writing Chapter Five of the Big Book. He originally named God very liberally throughout the Steps, leading to heated discussion and the eventual compromise and the addition of “as we understand Him” and “Higher Power.”

      “Those expressions, as we so well know today, have proved lifesavers for many an alcoholic,” Bill wrote in a 1953 Grapevine article. “They have enabled thousands of us to make a beginning where none could have been made had we left the steps just as I originally wrote them. … Little