A.A. Monterey Newsletter

MBAIAA Newsletter – October 2025

Published on 10/21/2025

Step Ten: “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” “When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – September 2025

Published on 09/19/2025

Step 9: “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” Step Nine is where willingness turns into action. After we’ve written our list in Step Eight, we begin the process of repairing the damage we caused in the past. Making amends is not simply saying […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – August 2025

Published on 08/26/2025

Step 8 – “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” “The readiness to take the full consequences of our past acts, and to take responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Eight.” (12&12, p. 77) […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – July 2025

Published on 07/22/2025

Step 7 – “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” “As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. A basic ingredient of all humility, a basic desire to do God’s will, was missing.”— Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 72 Step 7 invites us […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – June 2025

Published on 06/20/2025

Step 6 – “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” “So Step Six—‘Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character’—is AA’s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.”— Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – May 2025

Published on 05/23/2025

Step 5 – “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” “Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility” – Twelve Steps and […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – April 2025

Published on 04/23/2025

Step 4 – “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” “Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene. As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – March 2025

Published on 03/28/2025

Step 3 – “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” “Therefore, we who are alcoholics can consider ourselves fortunate indeed. Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – February 2025

Published on 02/22/2025

Step 2 – “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” “The moment they read Step Two, most A.A. newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, a serious one. How often have we heard them cry out, “Look what you people have done to us! You have convinced us that […]

MBAIAA Newsletter – December 2024

Published on 12/24/2024

Step 12 – “Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” “The joy of living is the theme of A.A.’s Twelfth Step and action is the key word. Here we turn outward toward […]