EBook Step Up: Unpacking Steps 1-3 with Someone Who's Been There

Intro
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Epigraph
 An Invitation to Another Way of Life
 Part 1: Now What?
 What Are Twelve Step Programs? Are They Cults?
 Where Did Twelve Step Programs Come From?
 Why Are There Meetings, and Why Do I Have to Go?
 What Goes On in Meetings?
 What Do I Have to Do in a Meeting?
 Michael, What\'s Your Story?
 What\'s the Structure of a Twelve Step Meeting?
 Why Are There Steps?
 What Advice Does the Program Offer about Stopping?
 Once You\'ve Stopped, How Do You Stay Stopped?
 How Does Taking the Steps Help You Recover from Addiction and Alcoholism? What Do the Twelve Steps Do, and Why Are There Twelve of Them, Anyway?Doesn\'t That All Sound Kind of Complicated?
 What Is Secret Step Zero?
 How Do I Actually Take the Steps?
 So, How Did You Pick Your Sponsor?
 What Is the Big Book, and Why Do I Have to Read Something from the 1930s?
 Why\'d You Include All That Crazy Stuff about Bill and the Big Book?
 Why Is There So Much Negative Stuff about Fellowships Online?
 What Are the Twelve Traditions, and Why Should I Care?
 Why Do People Relapse, and Will I?
 Why Is There Such a Focus on \"One Day at a Time\"? What\'s This Whole Thing about the \"First Drink Gets You Drunk\"?Why Do I Have to Have a Higher Power?
 You Don\'t Get It, Michael. I Really Don\'t Like God. Now What?
 Who Were the \"Three Doctors\" Who Influenced the Program?
 Part 2: Stepping It Up: Taking Steps One, Two, and Three
 What Does the Word Powerless in Step One Mean?
 What\'s the Deal with Surrender?
 What Does Unmanageable Mean in the First Step?
 So, How Do I Take Step One?
 If I Don\'t Like Step Two, Do I Still Have to Take It?
 What\'s Step Three?
 What\'s the Contract in the Third Step? How Do You Tell the Difference between My Will and God\'s Will?So Michael, When Exactly Did You Start Trusting Your Higher Power?
 How Does the First Step Apply in Al-Anon?
 Part 3: Questions People Often Ask in Early Twelve Step Recovery
 What if I\'m Taking Medication for Depression, Anxiety, or Other Issues?
 Why Is Everyone in Twelve Step Programs So Damned Grateful?
 Hey, Michael, Who Was on the Phone Just Now?
 What Is Cross Talk and Why Can\'t I Do It?
 What Should I Share in a Twelve Step Meeting?
 I\'m Really Not Supposed to Date for a Whole Year? You Kidding Me? Will the People I Hurt Ever Forgive Me?Is It Okay to Talk about Drugs in an AA Meeting?
 Do I Have to Tell People I\'m Working a Program?
 What\'s All This Talk about Humility, Anyway?
 What\'s the Deal with \"Chiming In\"?
 What Is Thirteenth Stepping, and Why Should I Be Concerned about It?
 Will You Tell Me the Story about You and the Sex Addict?
 What if I Still Don\'t Like Meetings?
 What if I Still Don\'t Like God?
 What if My Significant Other Doesn\'t Want Me to Go to Meetings?
 Now Tell Me the Story about Your Sponsee Kevin, Okay?
 Can We Do the Poem Now?
 Appendix