NO MATTER WHAT: DEALING WITH ADVERSITY IN SOBRIETY - Stories from AA Grapevine

NO MATTER WHAT: DEALING WITH ADVERSITY IN SOBRIETY - Stories from AA Grapevine

This book was published by the AA Grapevine, Inc in 2013.

Here is a portion of the “Welcome”:

"We have seen AAs suffer lingering and fatal illness with little complaint, and often in good cheer. ... We have some members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses. Ordinarily we see these situations met with fortitude and faith."

- Essay on Step Twelve, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

All recovering alcoholics have had to deal with adversity at multiple points in sobriety. Defined as a state of hardship or afflic-tion, adversity could be an ugly divorce, the death of a child, the loss of a house to fire (or to the bank), or the discovery that you have a serious illness. Despite the pain we are in when these tragedies strike, drinking is not an option. We cannot drink again, as it would only lead to worse calamity. For those who have gone through the Twelve Steps, perhaps two or more times, the answers should be obvious: We talk to our sponsor or other AAs. We go to more meet-ings. We turn it over to our Higher Power, however we define he, she, it or they. We help another alcoholic. Does it work?

AA co-founder Bill W., sober for about 17 years by the time he penned Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, knew all too well the ups and downs of a sober life. In his essay on Step Twelve, he wrote: "How shall we come to terms with seeming failure or success? Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity? Can we steadfastly content ourselves with the humbler, yet sometimes more durable, satisfactions when the brighter, more glittering achievements are denied us?

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