The thought of not just having to take an inventory, but having to tell someone else what was on it, filled with me with dread - so I delayed it as long as possible. So much so, to the point where I thought I might burst and I knew I simply had to get on and do it. Once I started, the words flowed and the lists grew. I was away camping at the time in the Lakes and I sat on sunny mornings writing and getting it all out of my head. Writing things I have never told anyone before, but I could feel the weight fall off my shoulders.
As we all know, this was not the task complete though. Now I needed to tell another human being, someone I trusted. I learnt the great power and honesty that would come after getting things out of my head onto paper and then verbally to someone else - the freedom! I knew from that moment, I never needed to hold onto a secret again. I had drawn a line in the sand and started afresh and it was going to be ok.
Cath W
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Contents
0 The Twelve Steps
1 Contents and Preamble
2 The Twelve Traditions
3 Editorial
4 Thoughts On My Six-Month Anniversary
6 Roundabout Wordsearch
7 If You Don’t Take the First Drink...
8 The Only Requirement
9 Letter To My Drinking Self
10 Gratitude For Our ‘Meeting in Print’
11 2025 Roundabout Themes
12 Any Lengths
14 Call for 2026 Diary and Calendar
15 EURYPAA Glasgow 2025
16 Conventions
i-iv Events, Groups, Intergroups and Regions
17 68th Scottish National Convention
18 The Roundabout Interview
23 Wordsearch Answers
24 33rd Welsh Convention
25 Subscription Form
26 Literature Extracts
29 AA History - The Traditions
32 The Twelve Concepts
33 Subcommittee Noticeboard
