You may be wondering – What is the 12 Step Companion?
The 12 Step Companion is an instruction guide.
The 12 Step Companion web site is for people who want to help other alcoholics, who still suffer from alcoholism, to find the solution through working the Twelve Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
If you have been through the Twelve Steps of recovery as detailed in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous you can use this guide to take someone else through the steps.
When they talk about the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, they are talking about doing the Twelve Steps. That is really the main event. Everything else; meetings, groups, conferences, and all of the related activities, are in service to completing the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Tradition Five states: Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose, that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
The message we carry, doing the work in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, is that you can recover from the seemingly hopeless state of mind and body known as alcoholism.
All Sessions of the 12 Step Companion are in the Sessions tab on the title bar.
To inform yourself on how best to use this book please read the information on this site, and the outline of what’s in the 12 Step Companion here; Sessions.
“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of These Steps!”
If you are willing to do all of the Twelve Steps and continue with the program, the obsession to drink will be removed. That is the promise of doing the Alcoholics Anonymous program.
It doesn’t mean that we no longer have the disease of alcoholism. There is no cure.
“Once a cucumber becomes a pickle it never goes back to being a cucumber.”
I wrote the 12 Step Companion in the spirit of helpfulness and support. A guide for people working the steps with others who are interested in walking this path of freedom.
We cannot walk the path for you, that’s something only you can do.
We can walk the path with you!
There is no printed version of the 12 Step Companion.
If you would like a PDF copy of the 12 Step Companion, or leave a message, click on the Contact Us tab at the top of the page and fill in the form. (Please include a short message because we do get a lot of spam.)
There is work to be done!
If you use the 12 Step Companion in your effort to work the steps with others, please share any thoughts and suggestions on how to improve and make it more accessible to all who may come here for guidance.
As a community of recovered alcoholics, we can work to create a more effective effort to help the millions of people out there who are still suffering because they haven’t had the opportunity to share in this wonderful and miraculous program.
There is a solution and we can all be part of it!
Daniel O