Originally Posted by ru12

Perhaps the 'no big changes' is to protect the newly sober from irrationally changing careers, spouse, geography, and the like when they are freshly sober. Working at staying sober was enough for me at the beginning. I certainly wasn't doing my best thinking in early sobriety. I do think there is a lot of collective wisdom in many of the things that AAs say. I particularly think that the booklet Living Sober was useful.