Seasonal Materials
Celebrating the seasons can be a challenge in early recovery. How can we experience joy even while we heal?
“God promises to be with us in every day and every season.”
Special occasions such as Christmas and Easter often present huge challenges to our sobriety today. Our current situations may be less-than-perfect because of dysfunctional relationships connected to past times of gathering and celebrating. The gathering of our loved ones may include triggering behaviours and people that threaten our sobriety. How can we find serenity and even joy during these holiday seasons, whether we can gather with loved ones or not?
Click on any of the links below for more information on how to build these principles into a person's daily living as we consider Step One.
Christmas With God In Recovery
Christmas: Light Shining In My Darkness
Easter: Doubt Or New Life
Easter: Jesus Death and My Recovery
Thanksgiving: Practicing An Attitude of Gratitude
Other Helpful Information on This Step
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous or the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions