The Steps We Took: A Teacher of the Twelve Steps Shares His Experience, Strength, and Hope with All Those Recovering from Addictions, All Who Want to Recover, and All Who Love ThemThe director of an addiction treatment center for more than four decades, Joe McQ has become an internationally respected teacher and lecturer on the Twelve Step method introduced by Alcoholics Anonymous and since adopted by dozens of recovery groups. In The Steps We Took, Joe offers countless analogies, insights, explanations and elucidations of these principles, drawing from his own recovery experience and those of the hundreds he has helped. The title, taken from the words spoken at .... |
Contents
Note from the editors | 11 |
There is a Solution Beyond Ourselves Step 2 | 27 |
Making a Decision Step 3 37 | 53 |
Improving On the Truth Step 5 | 71 |
Change is the Name of the Game Steps 6 and 7 | 87 |
Making Amends Steps 8 and 9 | 107 |
Continuing to Grow Step 10 | 121 |
Carrying the Message Step 12 | 149 |
Extra Inventories | 165 |
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