R.A. Welcomes Newcomers!
RECOVERIES ANONYMOUS is a universal Twelve Step recovery program. We welcome everyone, regardless of your problems, behaviors, or symptoms. We have no dues or fees. Your family and friends are also invited. You are not alone. We look forward to you joining us!
In R.A. Meetings, we follow the example of the program's creators, the pioneers. Each person reads a positive quote from our Suggested Literature and explains why it is meaningful to them. We also talk about the positive results we are having from fully working the Twelve Steps.
Newcomers can also share about a quote, listen without sharing, or pass. We do not discuss our problems, behaviors, or symptoms. This helps everyone feel included.
You do not need to be religious to benefit from the Twelve Steps. We welcome people of all faiths, as well as atheists and agnostics.
R.A.'s experience shows that many of our problems, behaviors, and symptoms have a common source. The pioneers say this is a spiritual illness that makes us carry our normal instinctive drives to extremes. We hurt others and ourselves.
When we fully work all Twelve Steps by following the original clear-cut directions, the spiritual malady is overcome. We heal mentally, physically, and spiritually.
This is why the original spiritual program that produced recovery from alcoholism can also help you recover from many other problems, behaviors, and symptoms. Some examples are:
• Eating disorders, including weight gain or loss.
• Addiction or abuse of drugs, foods, chemicals, or other substances, like caffeine and nicotine
• Compulsions, such as gambling, lying, smoking, shopping, spending, shoplifting, stealing, or kleptomania
• Obsessions, like exercising, cluttering, hoarding, pornography, and workaholism.
• Relationship issues, for instance, love and sex addictions, codependency, obsessive relationships, and incest.
• Emotional struggles with depression, anger, rage, anxiety, shame, self‑hatred, cutting, and picking.
• Personality disorders, including being physically, emotionally, or financially abusive.
• Other conditions, like procrastinating, underachieving, underearning, freeze or fawn trauma responses, PTSD, and OCD.
In R.A., we follow the original path to work all Twelve Steps. As we take continuous action on them as a way of life, we find the same results the pioneers found: a lasting recovery and a contented, useful life.
Since 1984, R.A. has helped thousands. Many felt hopeless. Do not be discouraged. Start your recovery journey by reading R.A.’s free "How to Begin Guides" and attending R.A. meetings. Life will take on new meaning. Bookmark our website and sign up for R.A.'s free E‑newsletter. R.A. can help you too!
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