Sponsorship
July 30
Some of us who rushed into the First Step later discovered this might be another expression of our need to control things and work the “perfect” program….
August 3
We may consider entering into a co-sponsorship relationship with a program friend for mutual support….
August 11
An inventory allows us to go over our lives methodically and objectively, reevaluating assumptions, beliefs, and feelings that we have held onto for years but perhaps never examined or questioned….
August 27
Most of us know that we are ready to sponsor when another member asks us, or when our own sponsor encourages us to take on a sponsee….
September 12
One of the most direct and profound ways we can serve other members is by sponsoring them….
September 15
We don’t need to be experts about life, or even about addiction, in order to sponsor someone. We simply share the knowledge and experience we have gained from working the Twelve Steps and using the tools of the program, and we pass on the wisdom we’ve learned from our own sponsor and others in the fellowship…
October 10
And by sharing our recovery, we offer hope and show that there is a way out of our common addiction….
November 15
The power of this step is in the asking, not in the result. Asking is a very powerful act—it expresses a deepening surrender on our part….
December 1
We recover as individuals but we do not recover alone. We recover together. We recover helping others and being helped by others.…And in this, the sponsor’s recovery is helped just as much as the sponsee’s….
December 12
The program tools being offered to you are the same that kept your sponsor sober, and they can keep you sober too….