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What are instincts and how are they threatened or interfered with?

In the list below, select the instinct (society, security, sex) that feels injured, threatened, or interfered with, and then write as many words from right column as apply to you.


Instincts for Socie ...

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AAs Should Be Honest About Sex Problems



MANY people who write on the subject of sex problems feel obliged to explain that sex is basically good--that it is God's method of guaranteeing the reproduction of mankind. This startling information is usually supplied defensively, almost as if to combat the grim possibility that sex might be legislated out of existence if somebody doesn't present a wor ...

The thing to do with sin is to do what Nicodemus did: go and search out someone with whom we can talk privately and frankly. Tell them of these things and, with them as witness, give these sins and our old selves with them, to God. You say that you can do this alone with God; and I ask you, Have you succeeded in doing so? I said I was going to do that for years, but it never happened until I let a ...

These speakers have done the process as laid out in The Big Book. They are sharing their experience on Steps Six and Seven. Chapter 6: Into Action, Page 76 ...

Now we need more action, without which we find that "faith without works is dead." Lets look at Steps Eight and Nine. We have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends. We made it when we took inventory. We subjected ourselves to drastic selfappraisal. Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on selfwill and run the show ourselves. If we haven't the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol. ...

This interview originally appeared in Steps Magazine.



Steps Eight and Nine Article- Interview with Piers K.


STEPS: Do you remember what your sponsor told you when it was time for you to make amends?


Piers: My sponsor told me to make a list of the people I’d harmed, the guiding rule being that they had to know that I’d hurt them. If I went to someone I’d hurt in ways they did not know, I ...