Newcomer - Crucial Keys to Recovery

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Crucial Keys to Recovery:

• Go to a 12 step meeting - read the "Newcomer Package" as soon as possible
• Make your recovery your top priority
• Make a commitment to attend at least 6 meetings during the next 2 weeks
• Find temporary sponsor as soon as possible (A sponsor/recovery partner is someone who guides you through the 12 Steps)
• Begin to work the Steps
• Get a phone. Use your phone list. Get in the habit of calling your recovery friends every day. Calling other members of the fellowship will benefit you as well as them. Calls are supportive of your recovery and welcomed by other members of the group
• Put the same amount of effort into your recovery as you did acting out
• Your addiction never takes a day off. Your recovery shouldn’t, either

FAQ

• What is sexual sobriety?
• How can I tell If I'm addicted?
• I know I cannot stop on my own. I've tried before and it did not work. Are you saying it is actually possible?
  "Yes, it is possible. There are sober members of 12-steps groups all over the world having many years of sobriety. Yes there is hope. The disease can be arrested (it is a chronic disease however) ".
• What do I have to do to get sober? - should this link to recovery main page or should a separate / new page be created for a Newcomer?  read "90 tools for Sobriety", "Best Advice - a Compendium".

Last update: Thursday, April 26, 2007.  Feedback - send an email to: