by The Magdalen House | Mar 2, 2023 | #Women, 12 Steps, Service, Solution, Spiritual
Written by Lisa Kroencke, Executive Director In my fifteen years of recovery, I’ve read hundreds of debates about misogyny and the patriarchal nature of the text in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. And as someone who found recovery through the contents of the Big...
by The Magdalen House | Sep 4, 2021 | 12 Steps, Meetings, Spiritual, Sponsor, Volunteer
A sponsor is a recovered alcoholic, or recovered family member, who has had a spiritual awakening as the result of working the 12-Steps and continues to practice the steps and the spiritual principles that go along with them in their daily life. They are a guide who...
by The Magdalen House | May 7, 2021 | #Detox, #Free, 12 Steps, Alcoholism, Community, First Step, Next Step
Lisa Kroencke helps us study Steps 6 and 7. She talks about recognizing what self-will looks like, multiple surrenders, being self seeking with God, &...
by The Magdalen House | Jan 18, 2021 | #Free, #Treatment, 12 Steps, Next Step
Since June of 1987, The Magdalen House has worked toward a single purpose: helping women achieve sobriety and sustain recovery from alcoholism. And for over three decades, we have helped thousands of alcoholic women through our 14-day residential First Step program...
by The Magdalen House | Oct 29, 2020 | #Detox, #Free, 12 Steps, Alcoholism, Community, First Step, Next Step
In this episode of Studying the Steps, Chloe helps us study Step 10. She talks about the discipline and importance of this step, building awareness, being recovered, aligning our will with God’s will, and more. Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and...
by The Magdalen House | Oct 21, 2020 | #Detox, #Free, 12 Steps, Alcoholism, Community, First Step, Next Step
In this episode of Studying the Steps, Chloe helps us study Steps 6 and 7. She talks about character defects becoming objectionable, God giving us the choice in Step 7 (He’s not going to turn us into someone we don’t want to be), how being spirituality fit...
