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Sobrietyspell


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What do you think my stalwart Sobervibers? Sharp is a day centre rehab program based on introducing recoverees to the 12steps, groupwork & counselling during a 12week process where they can learn Steps 1-3. It is then expected for them to move into the supportive fellowship of whichever program they will identify with, take up with a sponsor & continue to get well this way. I know a lot of people who have been there & come to meetings during & after. It is a mixed bag of results but I think this may also be true of AA on the whole given that not everyone who comes to us will follow the program or stay. The manageress of this establishment does much to promote recovery in Liverpool.

Of course, we of our AA fellowship continue in what we have inherited from our forebearers in passing on the message of AA in recovery through getting honest, attending meetings & working a 12step program in its entirety. (This is what I see as essential A.A. & how it works). I am also a great believer in the traditions which I have much to learn in so I'm throwing out the question to you & asking what do you think of this Recovery March, its aims & how it fits as far as Anonymous fellowships are concerned? Please peruse the clips below & offer me your feedback. Please also tell me if you think this is an outside issue we ought to have no discussion for. Yours in keen curiosity, Danielle x


http://www.inexcess.tv/?p=7201

http://www.inexcess.tv/?p=7167

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I support events and efforts like this...just don't let anyone outside of the program
know I'm inside of the program unless their searching.   Any effort that supports
another drunks entry into sobriety, for me, is an instrument of HP.   ((((hugs)))) smile

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anything that gets an alkie into recovery is a good thing.

i would not be against attending such an event as this, but not with my AA hat on. I'd be just another recovered alkie.

AA cannot afford to associate with other organisations such, AA has no opinion on outside issues - so from a purely personal perspective (see the alliteration - God I love language), as i say, for me no problem and AA stays out of it.

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With my P.I. Hat on, I work alongside many of the professionals who work in the field of alcohol counselling/recovery, and some of them are in AA and in recovery, but when they are working, they are employees.

Likewise, when I attend any of their functions, I am simply (like Bill says) a sober alkie who wants to pass the message of recovery.  I have done awareness days in the local shopping centre with 2 other agencies, and had a separate table with AA literature on it.

I have also manned a stand at Harrogate conference centre at various conferences, which is brilliant.  The leaflet 'Lets be friendly with our friends' has some good advice about such things, I am more than happy to be invited by other agencies to work alongside them, and no, it's not affiliation, it's co-operation, and it also aids my recovery.

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