Recoveries Anonymous

11/19/2025

It's our anniversary. That's right, in November we celebrate the day when Recoveries Anonymous began. Here's the story:
Recoveries Anonymous traces its beginning to an individual who, in June 1981, sat in a circle with 20 other people. He was at a discussion meeting in another fellowship. When it was his turn to
share, he talked about something he had read the night before.
He shared his hope that what had happened for the pioneers of the program would also happen for him. He said that he hoped that God would restore his sanity and remove his obsession. Fifteen people shared after him. Every one of them said that they did not believe that this could ever happen.
He found this amazing. For the first time he could see that there were two programs. There was the problem-focused sharing he was hearing in the meetings he attended. There was also the
solution that the pioneers of the program wrote about in the program literature. He began to wonder what else he didn't know about the program.
He thus started a search that led him to thoroughly follow the "clear-cut directions" that the pioneers wrote in the Big Book. This, in turn, led to his recovery.

In November of 1983 he was at another meeting. It was the night before Thanksgiving. He was in front of a group of people who were looking for a solution to their problems and behaviors. He
shared that he had thoroughly followed the same path that the founders of the program had followed. He had done this by using the pioneers' "clear-cut directions" that are in the Big Book.
He told them that working all Twelve Steps in this way had led to his recovery. He had been restored to sanity and had stopped hurting himself and others.
Several of the people who heard him share stayed in contact with him. They saw how important what he shared was for their own recovery. They soon followed his example. They were also able to
recover using the same solution.

One person in particular had a vital spiritual experience. She immediately started to carry this message of hope, sanity and recovery to others. For the first time, the people she worked with
started to recover.

Now there were two people actively carrying and validating the same message of hope, sanity, and recovery to others. The number of recoveries began to grow.
In January, a group of the people who were working the program in this way started to meet. They discovered that they were members of many different Twelve Step programs. They had many different problems and behaviors.
Their experiences made it clear that the same solution would work for any problem or behavior.
They found that by sharing about the common solution, instead of their personal problems or behaviors, someone with one kind of problem or behavior could help someone who had different
problems or behaviors.
Recoveries Anonymous was thus formed as an independent, nonprofit corporation. And so many have recovered, by God's grace, through R.A.'s 12 step program of recovery.

11/15/2025

One R.A. member shares:
“We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admission of personal powerlessness finally turned out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.”
(AA 12&12, Step One on p21, third paragraph)

This is my experience.
I first had to reach rock bottom before becoming willing to look for the solution and to pursue it with vigor. In doing so, I was “catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence…happiness, peace, and usefulness…that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.”(R.A.'s Multilith Big Book p4, para 4, line6)

11/12/2025

An R.A. member shares:
"Particularly was it imperative to work with others as he had worked with me."
( p14)

As I was walking home from work, suddenly I thought to myself,
"I need to work with others." As the Big Book tells me, it is imperative. I've been in R.A. six years, and I now know that only working with others will keep me out of my problems and behaviors. I may be helping them, but working with them is my lifeline. Working with others always saves me. I know I need to stay in fit spiritual condition, and working with others is the spiritual work that keeps me spiritually fit.🙏

11/08/2025

Another R.A. member shares:
"When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better for us than anything we could have planned."
(R.A.'s Multilith p45)

As I sat down to write this share about the miracles God has worked in my life since I recovered in R.A., I noticed a new email. I've been waiting to hear about a professional opportunity; and I thought to myself, "Either they've responded or they haven't. God's in charge."
Miracle #1: The email was from them.
Miracle #2: My attitude of trust and acceptance. That, too is a miracle.
When I look back at my life since I came into R.A., I can see one miracle after another; so many, they are innumerable.
I am so grateful to have found this miraculous program, for the willingness to go to any length to get it, and for the opportunity to carry the message.

11/06/2025

One R.A. member shares:

There is a one hundred percent chance that someone you know right now is at a point in his or her life where he or she needs RAs solution right now. This is a very powerful concept. Understanding this concept will relieve you of a great deal of stress in your life. Understand this concept and you don’t have to convince anyone of anything ever again. You just have to find the right people and then be the answer to their prayers. It’s just like a deck of cards. In that deck we know there are four aces. We just keep turning up cards until we find them, one ace at a time. We don’t get discouraged and quit just because we’ve gone through ten cards and have not found an ace. In fact we could go through forty-eight cards with the same certainty that our aces are in the deck.
These suggestions show a very simple way of identifying the aces - the right people. If you turn over a name on your list and they’re not interested, not an ace, you say “thank you” and turn over the next card. It all boils down to the law of probabilities.
(R.A.'s How to Begin Finding New Members Guide p.3, 2nd column, 2nd full paragraph)

I am sharing this quote to encourage myself and others to share R.A. wherever I am: with family and friends, at the doctor’s, the hairdresser’s or at work. We can do it!

11/05/2025

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“The kick you will get is tremendous. To watch people come back to life,to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish…to have a host of friends-this is … the bright spot of our lives”(MLBB p.41, 2nd paragraph)

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11/04/2025

An R.A. member shares:

Before I recovered in R.A., I was in another program and it had been six years since I last acted out with my problem behaviors. I thought I had it made. So I counted the days and celebrated the years, feeling proud and at the same time jealous of others further on.

Then something happened: I started to replace my old behavior with other problem behaviors. Something wasn't right and I wasn’t feeling right. But people in meetings said: "Hey! At least you aren't doing the old problem.”

Yet there was a voice inside me and my heart was talking. At the beginning I could barely hear it...

It was something like... "Help others, do service, listen to my Higher Power, be a good Samaritan, speak about the solution not the problem..."

God was with me and He put me in the path of Recoveries Anonymous -- what a wonderful discovery! In R.A., people talked about the solution in the . They discussed the clear cut directions in the Big Book; and they were talking from their hearts. I felt I had come home.

Thank God I found R.A. God shows me to stop hurting myself and others. God protects me when I put Him first. He takes care of my life and does for me all the things I can't do for myself.

Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!

10/29/2025

Another R.A. member shares:
"The kick you will get is tremendous. To watch people come back to life, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends — this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives."
(R.A.'s Multilith , MLBB p41)

That’s what I have found! Going through R.A.s Step Presentation again is totally new. I am different now to how I was then, circumstances have changed, etc.

And being an international group, I can always find a friend to talk to, even at unsociable hours! These are friendships with people who are on the same journey, we speak the same language and pursue the same goals of a contented useful life.

It is the bright spot of my life.

10/26/2025

Here is the link to the October E-newsletter: https://ymlp.com/zM0q2s

The subject is: 🔶I Have Been Restored to Sanity — An R.A. Recovery

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10/22/2025

An R.A. member shares:

"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."
(Tradition Twelve)

Harvard Business School agrees when it highlights that most people in the general public have not heard of Bill W, co-founder of AA. And yet, he was a person who changed the world with the
Twelve Steps - the sense of mission and principles as part of a God centred way of life, rather than personal charisma keeps it going.

As the Twelfth Steps sayas:
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

Try it, it works!

10/17/2025

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10/15/2025

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