Reading assignment for this week:
Yellow workbook pages 57 – top of page 62 OR BRB pages 138 – 145
Red Book pages 106 – 108, section titled “Examining Spiritual Beliefs”
Recommended weekly reading:
“The Laundry List” or “The Problem,” “The Solution,” and “The Promises” on pages 587-591 of the Red Book or in the first several pages of the yellow workbook;
“The Twelve Steps” on pages 91-92 of the Red Book (also on pages 1-2 of the workbook); and
“The Twelve Traditions” on page 592 of the Red Book
Suggested supplemental reading:
Tradition One (the tradition for the month of January) in depth starting on Red Book page 491
Red Book Chapter 8
Suggested supplemental text for 3rd and 4th Step work:
The AlAnon workbook titled “Blueprint for Progress: Al-Anon’s Fourth Step Inventory,
Revised” (copyright date 2004, with the black text and deeper blue-and-white-checked cover; available from AlAnon or on Amazon.com.) See ACAWSO’s Literature Policy: “It has always been accepted that ACA should remain eclectic in choosing literature. That is, ACA meetings may draw from various sources without censorship.” The section on Spirituality (pgs 84-86) are useful for in-depth Third Step work.
This week’s step study questions are found on pages 65 – 66 of the yellow workbook under the heading “Step Three Questions and Information”:
6. Did my parents act one way during worshiping services and another way at home?
7. How does my attempt to control others or my emotions interfere with God working in my life? (Give a specific example.)
8. What is one area of my life I can begin to think about lessening my control urges?
9. Do I know how to have fun?
“Copyrighted by Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization.”
Deep Dive questions:
A. If you knew that you had no power to control events, outcomes, or a particular person, how would you behave differently? What would you say or do? What would you stop saying or doing? What would you do differently for yourself in order to enjoy your own life now, to live in the present moment?
B. If you weren’t allowing someone else, or a particular circumstance, to control you, what would you be doing differently? What would you do today with your life? How would you feel?
C. What is the most loving, most nurturing thing available to you right now that you can use to take care of yourself and enjoy life? What will you do with it?
© Melody Beattie’s Codependents Guide To The Twelve Steps
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