BIll Wilson spoke of a Final Frontier, a new major "development within AA" that would spearhead AA into Emotional Sobriety, the 4th Legacy of Bill Wilson, we believe that more IS being revealed and that interwoven Step and Tradition work is the "Bridge" that he spoke of. The bridge to the heart, the wonderful Highway of Humility, come and join us and spread the message or to quote Bill "PASS IT ON". Any fellowship may adapt this work by replacing a few AA specific words to better fit your needs.
TO FIND OUR MEETING, Look for the Emotional Sobriety meeting on the Paris AA meeting list here : http://www.aaparis.org/meetings/?tsml-day=0
For the EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY Los Angeles, Thursday 7:30-8:30 PM (Pacific) on ZOOM
Check the lacoaa.org website : https://lacoaa.org Password is BILLW1933. This meeting has moved to Mondays, same time.
For the EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY Los Angeles, Thursday 7:30-8:30 PM (Pacific) on ZOOM
Check the lacoaa.org website : https://lacoaa.org Password is BILLW1933. This meeting has moved to Mondays, same time.
The Emotional Sobriety Georgetown (Texas) meeting is coming soon.
The questions and format are locally GC approved and have been working for many here in Paris for many years. Other tools, which may help deepen the beauty of the big book, 12 &12 and the AA principles in general have been included if they may be helpful:
CLICK HERE FOR THE FORMAT AND QUESTIONS TO START YOUR OWN MEETING. This AA meeting format can easily be adapted to fit any program by replacing any AA specific words.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zkrhoz9vttiq8p2/emotional%20sobriety%20pack.zip?dl=0
For a Speaker Tape from Daniel from Paris AA on the inspiration of this movement go here :
EN FRANCAIS - For the French Version go here:
SEE BELOW WHERE THIS ALL LEADS..
For Bigger Print Format for the Questions - See our download link above or use these below :
God wanted me to learn about these Traditions to make good use of my time during my early sobriety when I was not yet mature enough to face the abject fear of my core abandonment, the core of all recovery, and hid out in grandiosity. The recovery of the heart at last --- to be able to feel again as the trap door out of all our stuckness.
Although there is a beauty and need to study the Traditions and that deeper study is lacking from all fellowships to their detriment, it was only part of the path that led to Emotional Sobriety which one could call the Spirituality of the Heart!
I followed Bill's words too closely, he said a "movement within AA" that would spearhead AA into Emotional Sobriety. It turns out it was about 7 different programs worked with a fire chasing me and a passage through the core of the inner child process, backup to the more balanced Emotions Anonymous "Just feel it" wisdom which is to say acceptance, and then through the speartip of VA, to work on what preceded alcohol : violence and how it worked into a distortion of my good nature. The spear tip. NVC prepared me for it. And Self EMDR helped me get out much of the triggers magnetism to where I could arrive at a "workable" condition. Maybe ACA will become part of AA in some future and Unity and a light-glow will come to all the fellowships.
Out of respect for the 12 Steps which have given me so much healing along with the 12 Traditions which have offered much needed structure, I must state that this journey is incomplete until one hits the true bottom and not only becomes powerless over alcohol, but also one must become powerless over the generational spirits of alcohol, or just dysfunction and hindrance in one's entire family story to find true healing of the inner family from the core abandonment pain under all of the surface layers.
May I no longer hide out in intellectual spirituality or grandiosity, as I did for 12 years in recovery, to avoid feeling in general but also to avoid feeling the shame and violence that the teen and the inner child holds and had recieved.
Bill stated at the end of his letter above that "our paralyzing dependencies had to be broken at depth" before we could find the "outgoing love"circuit of the heart. That depth is not to be found in AA alone, one must seek deeper levels such as ACA, SAA (from Texas) for the inner child/teen healing, EA for the emotional check-in skills and even VA (from Texas) for the speartip of violence received or expressed.
When finally above ground and out of the dungeon having graduated from 7 12 Step programs, including the ACA graduate level!! ;) I then signed up to a 3 month resource installing therapy which involved ETT, which uses strobing colored lights flashed into the corners of the eyes during talk therapy protocols, as well as a weekly DBT group for a year. This got me back to me.
Thank God.
I also came back to these questions, removing program specific language, as they can also be used for character building in general.
The chart below represents the path I had to take, if it can be of value to anyone.
