Step Eleven, Week Two: August 14th, 2024

Reading assignment for this week:

Yellow workbook pages 162-172 OR BRB pages 263 – 278

Red Book chapter 12, “Relapse”

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

Tradition Eight (the tradition for the month of August) in detail starting on page 527 of the BRB

Suggested supplemental reading:

Melody Beattie, “Codependents Guide to the Twelve Steps,” the Step Eleven chapter, pages 168-181 of the 1990 edition.  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 book “Days of Healing, Days of Joy: Daily Meditations for Adult Children” by Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty. 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.”

This week’s step study questions are adapted from the yellow workbook, the Step Eleven worksheet on http://12-steps-recovery.com, and from Melody Beattie’s book, “Codependents’ Guide to the Twelve Steps” with the author’s permission:

1. What makes you feel most connected to other people and the world around you?
2. Can you recall any time that your life was headed in the wrong direction? If so, what brought you back?
3. Has anything you have ever read or otherwise learned changed you in some deep and fundamental way?
4. If you had only one week to live and unlimited resources, whom would you gather around you, and how would you spend your last week in this life?
5. What do you hope your obituary will say?

Deep Dive questions:

A. What personal spiritual experiences can I draw on to help me improve my conscious contact with a Higher Power?

B. How do I define the difference between prayer and meditation?

C. Is something blocking me in this Step today? What is it? What Steps can I review to help me feel connected again?

D. What do I need to have the power to carry out my Higher Power’s will for me? Have I asked my Higher Power for that power?

© Al-Anon’s Paths to Recovery Workbook