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February 1982

Adventure of Recovery

Working the Steps is the key to our

ACTIVE ALCOHOLISM for me became a negative, passive, daily experience. The only active role my mind and body performed was in obtaining the next drink, the one that was going to work and turn everything around for me. In retrospect, I see that my thinking was all passive fantasy; I was incapable of assuming an active, "here and now" position.

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