smac,
i started by going to a secular forum every day and getting engaged with lots of conversations there. which almost automatically got me exposed to a variety of ideas and thereby helped me look at stuff i was going through and beliefs i held.
i also bought the LifeRing workbook "Recovery by Choice", (available at
The LifeRing Home Page | Sobriety, Secularity, Self-Help ) which is full of fairly in-depth exploratory questions about your/our relationship to alcohol, others, ourselves, our belief systems as far as recovery, out supports, detractors, fears, challenges, decision-making tools...you name it, it's in there.
and i took every book out of the library that i could find with personal recovery stories. i couldn't get enough of reading about how others had actually DONE this!
Anne Fletcher's 'Sober for Good' was a good one, but i read tons and tons.
it was a good start. served me well
best wishes to you on your journey.