Who Cares To Admit Complete Defeat?
Who Cares To Admit Complete Defeat?
Step One in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions opens with a hard question: who wants to admit complete defeat? For most of us, admitting powerlessness sounds like losing. But the 12 & 12 turns that idea around—admitting powerlessness becomes the beginning of liberation.
Today we’re talking about why complete defeat can be so difficult to accept, the mental obsession and physical reaction that keep the alcoholic trapped, and why humility has such a direct connection to sobriety. Step One is not about convincing ourselves that we are worthless. It is…
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