Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Step Six is the step that separates the men from the boys. It requires us to stop struggling and become entirely ready to become willing. We must relax and turn to our Higher Power with confidence. We must believe that God will remove our defects. #2 Step Six is to ask ourselves if we want to give up our defects. We must surrender our ideas of which defects stand in the way of our usefulness to God, ourselves, and others. We must trust that Step Seven follows. #3 We must realize that we can’t change ourselves completely by ourselves. We must ask God to remove our character defects, and He will. We must realize that we are truly bodily and mentally different than our peers. #4 We can choose to be winners, securely and absolutely, or we can choose to be losers, only enough to get the pain to stop. The winners actively seek and practice a new way of living. The losers wait until they are in so much pain that the choice becomes obvious, and then they choose to participate only enough to get the pain to stop.

A practical guide to letting go of the character defects that get in the way of true and joyful recovery. Resentment. Fear. Self-Pity. Intolerance. Anger. As Bill P. explains, these are the "rocks" that can sink recovery- or at the least, block further progress. Based on the principles behind Steps Six and Seven, Drop the Rock combines personal stories, practical advice, and powerful insights to help readers move forward in recovery. The second edition features additional stories and a reference section.

Uses the hero's journey as the path on which to travel for overcoming addiction and crisis and rescuing your own story. This is a book about becoming heroic. A hero is a person who faces great danger, overcomes incalculable odds, and accomplishes that which would have been thought (especially by the hero) to be impossible to achieve. Considering the fear and pain that a person must experience in such an adventure, it is a role that few would desire for themselves. And yet, more of us find ourselves in circumstances demanding heroism than one might imagine. In fact, people who are never called upon to be heroic at some point in their lives are in the minority, if they exist at all. This is not a book for people who might want to become heroic someday. It is for people who are in the midst of a crisis, and who must make a decision about whether they are going to face their situation, survive, rise above themselves, and share their newfound knowledge with others who may need salvation. And it is for those who are already traveling such a journey and who would like to gain a new understanding of themselves, what their journey was and is about, and why it is so important. Using the twelve step framework for understanding the inner work a person must do in order to overcome addiction, Michael Cowl Gordon walks readers through the journey to inner salvation and peace. Using the hero's journey as the path on which to travel through these steps, he uncovers the deep work that it takes to be the hero in your own story.

Practice These Principles is an edited, up-to-date version of What is the Oxford Group?, a core book for early AA which is also printed in this two-book volume. Those interested in A.A. history will find this two-book volume to be a must-have edition. Practice These Principles is an edited version of the original work, What is the Oxford Group? (full text reprinted) which served as a basis for the text of Alcoholics Anonymous. What is the Oxford Group? was written in 1932 and served as one of the core books for early A.A.s.