Voices of Recovery
October 26
Throughout this process, we carefully examine our motives, always balancing the willingness to take full responsibility for our wrongs with care and concern for the well-being of those we
have harmed….
October 28
SAA is open to all people regardless of age, race, religion, and gender or sexual preference….
October 29
As addicts, we are accustomed to seeking instant gratification. But in recovery, most of us experience gradual improvement rather than sudden transformations….
October 30
We may, out of a genuine concern for the fellowship, want to take control of what happens in our groups and service committees….
October 31
While the inner circle relates to behaviors which keep us in permanent isolation and fantasy, the outer circle refers to behaviors which help us move out into the real world…
November 1
In taking the First Step, we admit that our addiction is destroying us, and that we are unable to stop it. We surrender, raise the white flag, and accept that the battle is over….
November 2
I was opened up, and for me that was the secret of spirituality….
November 3
With anonymity as our foundation, we dedicate our efforts to something much greater than any one of us….
November 4
The First Step is a matter of honesty and openness—in the shadows of aloneness we can trip and bury ourselves in shame….