By Shelly Marshall
Genuine adolescents inform the genuine tale approximately getting sober and staying sober during this edgy, successful interpretation of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics nameless. Shelly Marshall shall we her teenager individuals communicate for themselves (and their phrases should not sugarcoated), whereas expertly augmenting the non-public tales with discussions approximately universal Twelve Step restoration ideas. younger, Sober, and unfastened, first released in 1978, aided the restoration of numerous younger addicts and alcoholics. This moment variation, that includes 4 new tales from young people, is bound to motivate many extra. Key good points and merits positive factors first-person tales of overcoming habit by means of children offers techniques for buying sober and staying sober first-class source for teenagers, mom and dad, and pros concerning the author-Shelly Marshall has committed 33 years to operating with younger addicts. An acclaimed coach, writer, and researcher, she is well-known the world over as a professional in adolescent restoration and her study has been released in 4 foreign journals. She lives in Ruthville, Virginia.
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This is our program: the decision first and the rest of the Steps are the execution. If you decide you want to take the Third Step, you’ve already taken it. When You “Turn It Over,” Let Go or You’ll Be Upside Down Many young people are afraid to make this decision, to turn it over to their Higher Power and let go of the reins. Their fears arise from different thought patterns: We’ve All Been Hung Up on God / 21 • Maybe I’ll never have anymore fun. • I’m so young. • Probably I’ll be singing hymns with AA, CDA, and NA fanatics the rest of my life.
Sometimes the simplicity escapes the complexity of our minds. Here are the first Three Steps in simple form: 22 / Chapter Two I can’t. He can. I think I’ll let Him. We can analyze and rationalize our way into or out of just about anything. So we ask you to stop the intellectual crap and just work the Steps. Judge the results later; don’t try to understand it all now. You can’t; you really can’t. If we’ve learned nothing else, we have learned this about life: you can analyze it to death. We’ve All Been Hung Up on God / 23 LEON’S STORY He thought that being strung out on heroin was the worst thing possible, until he became an alcoholic.
Maybe I can get Marilyn back, or maybe I can fall in love with some farm girl and have a nice house. . ) Part Five, Growing Up (I’m in a liquor store! How the hell did I get here? I don’t remember walking here. ” (Better get to the AA club. ) “Abe, I just found myself in a liquor store and I don’t remember the last several blocks. I’m scared. I just got a pack of cigarettes and got my butt down here. ” “Not that, exactly, but I have heard of people having delayed 42 / Chapter Three reactions to alcohol and that could be what it was.
