A Walk Through The Steps With Roy T1 Step 1
A Walk Through The Steps With Roy T1 Step 1
A Walk Through The Steps With Roy T1 Step 1
Foreword
As AA’s globally responded to the lockdown due to the pandemic with virtual
meetings, a meeting now known as the ‘ESH & Beyond Online Meeting’ originated
in Mumbai, India on 22 March 2020 with the intent to provide the fellowship in
India with sharing’s focused on the pillars of recovery; the steps. To that end we
invited speakers from all over the world to share their ESH.
This 12 Step Workshop was facilitated by Roy T., during the peak of the lockdown
in May and June 2020, over a 3 week period. 100 participants (our limit) logged in
every night and many more were left waiting in the waiting room unable to get in.
Newcomers, chronic relapsers, as well as folks who hadn’t had a drink in years (but
hadn’t worked their steps 😊) actively engaged in this workshop and reported
positive results.
So we decided to use these recorded sessions and PDF’s to compile this workbook.
Many more virtual groups have sprung up and to our amazement, folks report using
these shares and worksheets to carry this message to people in different
Indian languages and even in other countries!!! Please send an email to
Roy T. roytellis@outlook.com
Aneesh I. aa.aneesh.maverick@gmail.com Or
Girish M. giriaamen@gmail.com if we may be of assistance.
We look forward to meeting you soon on the road of happy destiny. May God bless
you and keep you until then!
Workshop Presented and Recorded @ ‘ESH & Beyond Online Meeting’ Mumbai, India
A Walk Through The Steps with Roy T – May/June 2020
Preparation for Step 1 Please read FROM page 0 (the 1st blank page of the big book 🙂), the title page, the
preface, all the forewords 1 2 3 4, the doctors opinion and TO pg 16 (the end of Bills Story) -- please underline
or highlight any words or sentences that you identified with ..
Step One
WE admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become
unmanageable.
Understanding PHYSICAL POWERLESSNESS:
If while drinking, I am unable to control … I am PHYSICALLY POWERLESS
3. Who is the ‘we” that they’re talking about? Pg. xiii "WE, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, … hopeless
state of mind and body.”
4. What do ‘they” have? Pg. 15 “The joy of living we really have, … which has not been overcome
among us.”
Workshop Presented and Recorded @ ‘ESH & Beyond Online Meeting’ Mumbai, India
A Walk Through The Steps with Roy T – May/June 2020
5. How do I know I can get what they have?
Pg. 153 “It may seem incredible … is still with us. Our own recovery proves that!”
7. Have you tried any of these methods of control or stop your drinking? Pg. 31 “Here are some of the
methods … list ad infinitum.”.
9. Is there any other method to find out if you can stop or control your drinking?
• Pg. 31-32 “...you can quickly diagnose yourself … honest with yourself about it.”
Workshop Presented and Recorded @ ‘ESH & Beyond Online Meeting’ Mumbai, India
A Walk Through The Steps with Roy T – May/June 2020
13. Who are these ‘many others’?
• Pg. 108 “One: Your husband may be only a heavy drinker ... become true alcoholics after a while.”
• Pg. 109 “Two: Your husband is showing lack of control, … “He wants to want to stop.”
• Pg. 109 “Three: This husband has gone much further … be quite hopeful of a situation like this.”
• Pg. 110 “Four: You may have a husband of whom you completely despair …Yet they got well.”
15. What about willpower? Can I use that to control or stop drinking?
• Pg. 7 “Best of all, I met a … remains strong in other respects.”
• Pg. 24 “The fact is that most alcoholics … becomes practically nonexistent.”
16. So why do I keep drinking after the doctor has given me this information? Where is the main
problem?
Pg. 23 “Therefore, the main problem … than in his body.”
Workshop Presented and Recorded @ ‘ESH & Beyond Online Meeting’ Mumbai, India
A Walk Through The Steps with Roy T – May/June 2020
19. What causes this mental state of unmanageability (mental, emotional, financial, etc.)?
Pg. 52 “We were having trouble with personal relationships,
we couldn’t control our emotional natures,
we were a prey to misery and depression,
we couldn’t make a living,
we had a feeling of uselessness,
we were full of fear,
we were unhappy,
we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people”
Workshop Presented and Recorded @ ‘ESH & Beyond Online Meeting’ Mumbai, India
A Walk Through The Steps with Roy T – May/June 2020
Pg. 52 Regarding Unmanageability:
“We were having trouble with personal relationships, (Yes or No?)
we couldn’t control our emotional natures, (Yes or No?)
we were a prey to misery and depression, (Yes or No?)
we couldn’t make a living, (Yes or No?)
we had a feeling of uselessness, (Yes or No?)
we were full of fear, (Yes or No?)
we were unhappy, (Yes or No?)
we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people.” (Yes or No?)
Our experience was that we sat quietly and reviewed the drinking experiences of our lives with respect to the
above questions of powerlessness and unmanageability. Please note that the Big Book does not ask us to write
any stories or essays, they just ask us to follow the instructions below:
Pg 30 “We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were
alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or
presently may be, has to be smashed.”
Workshop Presented and Recorded @ ‘ESH & Beyond Online Meeting’ Mumbai, India