You relapsed, what are you going to do different this time?
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Step 1 starts with, I'm screwed, buddy. Not a damn thing I can do about it. I suffer from a terminal condition that I don't have the power to fix.
The only answer that can come out of that interrogation is that I am powerless. I am without defense against that first drink. I lack the needed power.
So the only solution for me is to get that needed power. Now how do I do that? AA offers one possible way that has proven very effective.
I'm just as powerless today as when I first got sober. I've ceased fighting anyone or anything, even alcohol. The difference is that I've tapped into a power that takes care of that for me, as long as I'm willing to let that power take care of all the rest of me as well.
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So I no longer ask people who can't stop what they are going to do differently, I suggest they keep doing what they are doing until they are done, until doing what they are doing terrifies them so much they can't do it any more, keep doing what they are doing until they can surrender.
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