The two most common kinds of 12-Step meetings are:
OPEN MEETINGS: As the term suggests, meetings of this type are open to members and their families and to anyone interested in solving a personal problem or helping someone else to solve such a problem.
Most open meetings follow a more or less set pattern, although distinctive variations [...]

Tim’s Story…
DRA has offered me what I had lost or been unable to find in my sobriety. It offers me believable hope and steps to apply to both my chemical dependency and my psychiatric illnesses. It also offers me a way to heal the emotional and psychic damage that I experienced as a result of [...]

Twelve Steps of Emotions Anonymous

We admitted we were powerless over our emotions - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Made a [...]

Recovery in Marijuana Anonymous
The practice of rigorous honesty, of opening our hearts and minds, and the willingness to go to any lengths to have a spiritual awakening are essential to our recovery.
Our old ideas and ways of life no longer work for us. Our suffering shows us that we need to let go absolutely. We [...]

Nicotine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women helping each other to live our lives free of nicotine. We share our experience, strength and hope with each other so that we may be free from this powerful addiction.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using nicotine. There are no dues [...]

We were created fully human. We were given emotions, desires, hopes, dreams, and feelings. There is an alive, excited, fun loving child in us somewhere! Let it come out! Let it come alive! Let it have some fun

Many people in early recovery from addiction, alcoholism, gambling and codependency are challenged by philosophical questions such as posed here.

HIV Anonymous is a fellowship of persons who have found that living with a potentially terminal illness is a major challenge. We are individuals who meet regularly as a group, assisting one another in this new way of life. We have no outside affiliations. Our past is kept in confidence within the group. We don’t [...]

12 Steps of Alcoholics Victorious with Biblical References
1 - We admitted we were powerless over alcohol … that our lives had become unmanageable.

"I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out." (Romans 7:18)

2 [...]

A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a
Japanese master during
the Meiji era (1868-1912),
received a university
professor who came to
inquire about Zen. Nan-in
served tea. He poured his
visitor’;s cup full, and then
kept on pouring. The
professor watched the
overflow until he no longer
could restrain himself. “It is
overfull. No more will go
in!” “Like this cup,” Nan-in
said, “you are full of your
own opinions and
speculations. How can I
show you Zen unless you
first empty your cup?”
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