Thursday Big Book Step Study

Words:
nominal
concede
propositions

Writing assignments:
1. Write out cases in your own life and in your own experiences which
prove that your are an addict of the “hopeless condition”.

2. Has this process snuffed out the last flicker of conviction that
you can do the job of staying clean, sober, and abstinent yourself?
Write on it.

3. What life long conceptions do you have to throw out the window if
you want to stay clean, sober, and abstinent and walk on the
spiritual path required in the Big Book Step Study Process?

3a. After the realization, what is your plan of action going to be?

Thursdays words:
sots
morass
debauch
catapulted
proffered
temperance

Writing assignment:
We are on page 8 of Bill’s story “No words can tell of the loneliness and despair
I found in that bitter morass of self-pity. Quicksand stretched
around me in all directions. I had met my match. I had been
overwhelmed. Alcohol was my master.” Write on this paragraph. What
is your experience? When you read this, what feelings arise? Can you
relate to Bill’s description? Why is it necessary to relive this
bleak, hopeless, and miserable time in your life?

Words:
1. essentially
2. sensation
3. elusive
4. injurious
5. differentiate
6. impunity
7. succumbed
8. phenomenon

Writing assignment:
pg.4 Doctors opinion, last paragraph
To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are
restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again
experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by
taking a few drinks………

Write about your experience with feeling restless, irritable and
discontented before you used your particular drug before you came
into recovery.

Write about your experience with feeling restless, irritable and
discontented after you entered recovery.

Write about letting go of feeling restless, irritable and
discontented and becoming joyful, contented, and serene, and what you
are willing to do to reach this goal.