A.A. Monterey Newsletter

Published on 05/26/2023

Step 5 – “Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” “Few muddled attitudes have caused us more trouble than holding back on Step Five. Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically until they really clean house. Even A.A. old-timers, sober […]

Published on 04/26/2023

Step 4 – “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” “Alcoholics especially should be able to see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying cause of their destructive drinking.  We have drunk to drown feelings of fear, frustration, and depression.  We have drunk to escape the guilt of passions and then […]

Published on 03/24/2023

Step 3 – “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” “Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three. Isn’t it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, […]

Published on 01/27/2023

Step 1 – “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.” “We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins AA unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness and all its consequences. Until he so humbles himself, his sobriety – if any – will be […]

Published on 12/15/2022

Step 12 – “Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” “As I continued to go to meetings and work the Steps, something happened to me.  I felt confused because I wasn’t sure what it […]

Published on 11/28/2022

Step 11 – “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” “Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we […]

Published on 10/22/2022

Step 10 – “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” “A continuous look at our assets and liabilities, and a real desire to learn and grow by this means, are necessities for us.  We alcoholics have learned this the hard way.  More experienced people, of course, in all times […]

Published on 09/22/2022

Step 9 – “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” “As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to, convince those about us that we are indeed changing for the […]

Published on 08/18/2022

Step 8 – “Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.” “This is a very large order. It is a task which we may perform with increasing skill, but never really finish. Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all […]

Published on 07/25/2022

Step 7 – “Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings” “Certainly no alcoholic, and surely no member of A.A. wants to deprecate material achievement.  Nor do we enter into debate with the many who still so passionately cling to the belief that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of life.  But […]