If you’ve been looking for a solution to your alcoholism, the answer is easy, that would be God. This is not the answer that most alkies are looking for , so we sugar coat the program and beat around the bush with alternate solutions and slogans that end up killing many of us off en’ mass.

Very simply put, the Big Book’s 12 steps were designed to lead the individual alcoholic into a successful relationship with their creator. The 12 steps are so simple that even an alcoholic can do them. So then, why do they choose not to. Answer: because they can’t get around their own ego.

As a bonified alcoholic, I know first hand that my ego is cunning, baffling and powerful. It doesn’t want to die and will do anything to stay alive and kicking. It manipulates me through my mind and drags me down by suplanting delussional thoughts into my head about anything good that is in my life. And if I do catch on to its game, it changes its mask so I only think its gone, as it resumes it assalt from an alternate angle.

The steps crush my ego. But my ego is a weed that will re-grow, so it is not to be ignored for long. In order for my to go to God for help, to be willing to ask for help, and to be willing to go to any length to get this help, I must become humble.

In my drinking career, I should have been humiliated many, many times, with some of the crackpot things I did and said with incredibly disgusting behaviors and attitudes only an alcoholic could think were normal. This is NOT humble. Humble is when I am willing to do these things that initiate change in my life. Humilitaed is when my pants get pulled down in front of a crowd. Big difference.

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous offers me a clear cut set of instructions to find the willingness to become humble, the willingness to find peace in my heart, and the willingness to start to finally learn how to live right minded, right sized and right intentioned.

If you’ve been looking for a solution to be free, truly happy and really whole again, then have someone who has experienced it first hand, take you through the steps as they’re laid out in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and begin to find yourself a new home in the Arms of your creator.

You will never regret you choice to do so.