Drop the Rock--The Ripple Effect: Using Step 10 to Work Steps 6 and 7 Every Day

Drop the Rock--The Ripple Effect provides multiple perspectives from people successfully working a Twelve Step Program, showing Step 10 as a key to a sober life free of fear and resentment and filled with serenity and gratitude.

When Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects was first published in 1999, it quickly became the standard resource for working Steps 6 and 7, two of the most challenging of the Twelve Steps for many people in recovery. Learning what it means to fully surrender character defects frees you to make amends with Steps 8 and 9, realize the Big Book's "Promises," and move on to Step 10.

In this new follow-up resource, Fred H. explores what he calls "the ripple effect" that can be created by using Step 10 to practice Steps 6 and 7 every day and avoid picking up "the rock" again. Drawing on his years of lecturing on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, he reveals Step 10 as the natural culmination of working the previous Steps.

ISBN-13: 9781616496005

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Hazelden Publishing

Publication Date: 04-20-2016

Pages: 120

Product Dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

Fred H. has worked in the field of addiction and recovery for thirty-seven years and is the director of the retreat center for a leading addiction treatment program. He is a popular international speaker on the Big Book and the principles of the Twelve Steps.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Introduction: Welcome to the Voyage of Recovery 1

The Twelve Steps as a Sequence 9

The Transformation of Steps Six and Seven 15

As We Cross the Sea of Life 23

Working Step Ten 43

The Subtle Power of the Ripple Effect 71

The Wisdom of "Every Day" 93

The Other Shore: Serenity 113

Acknowledgments 115

Recommended Reading 116

The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous 117

The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous 118

About the Author 119

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