Step 8 After Three Relapses: When Any Lengths Finally Means It – Allyson K.

About This Speaker Tape

Allyson shares on Step Eight at a Womens Perspective meeting in Bernardsville NJ. Three years sober and suicidal, she connected with a sponsor who demanded she go to any lengths. After three relapses she learned that skipping Steps Eight and Nine led her back to drinking every time.

She describes the two schools on Step Eight — her school being all means all. She shares watching her mother clutch her handbag two years into sobriety, realizing the damage went far deeper than money. She closes by making a difficult amends to her sisters girlfriend after weeks of unwillingness, demonstrating that willingness comes through prayer and keeping her deal with a Higher Power.

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• 00:00 Step Eight at a Women's Perspective meeting in New Jersey
• 08:00 Three years sober and suicidal before finding the right sponsor
• 16:00 A sponsor who demanded she go to any lengths
• 24:00 Three relapses from skipping Steps Eight and Nine
• 32:00 The two schools on Step Eight — all means all
• 40:00 Watching her mother clutch her handbag two years into sobriety
• 48:00 Making the difficult amends to her sister's girlfriend
• 56:00 Willingness comes through prayer and keeping her deal with God