Making Amends
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From Grapevine , the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous, emotional and personal stories that reveal the great benefit of making amends Making Amends: Finding a New Freedom features 55 candid, firsthand stories from Grapevine magazine that reveal members’ personal experiences with Step Nine of the AA program that includes making direct amends, wherever possible, to whose we’ve harmed. The book includes chapters on making amends with parents, children, family members, exes and old friends, financial institutions and coworkers, and powerfully illustrates how this process can help us, as AA’s co-founder Bill W. wrote, “know a new freedom and a new happiness.” Sobriety can feel like a lonely endeavor, but these honest and personal narratives will serve as reminder that you are very much not alone. Whether you find yourself challenged by the focus of Step Nine on your path to recovery, appreciate being reminded about why it’s so vital, or wish to reflect on your own transformation, Making Amends is for you.
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AA Preamble
Contents
Welcome
CHAPTER ONE. Step Eight: We Don’t Rush Into Amends
Ready to Sweep
From Our Fellows and From God
From At Wit’s End
8 ½
Learning How to Forgive
The Eighth Step
Real Men Don’t Make Amends—Do They?
How Willing Would You Be?
CHAPTER TWO. Addressing the Past with Our Wounded Parents
My Last Amend
At My Father’s Grave
The Road From Reno
The Dad I Could Love
I Get to Be With Her
Making Amends
What I Do Owe
Under the Banyan Tree
CHAPTER THREE. Offering Our Amends to the Children We Love
The Mending Process
A New Itinerary
My Superhero
I Know Where You See God
The Luckiest Mom
Amends
Leaving the Results to God
CHAPTER FOUR. Bringing Our Amends Back Home
The Fire Has Gone Out
Made Direct Amends
Made Direct Amends
From At Wit’s End
A Quiet Hatred
A Tough Climb
CHAPTER FIVE. Exes: Finally Divorced From the Pain
25 Years of Regret
Unexpected Dividends
Early Amends
Captain Chaos
Scene of the Crime
Alone With My Ex
Peace With the Past
CHAPTER SIX. Where the Guilt Runs Deep, So Can the Peace
Giving a Little Bit Back
The Amends I Most Dreaded to Make
Dream Becoming Reality
A Letter From the Mother of the Man I Killed
Zipped Up Tight
Spiritual Agony
CHAPTER SEVEN. Active Alcoholism and Money: An Amends Waiting to Happen
9th Step Ride
Right to the Edge
On the Other Side of Amends
Tax Returns
From At Wit’s End
Hot Wine
If It Ain’t Nailed Down
Bank Notes
CHAPTER EIGHT. Finally Reaching Out to Those We So Often Kept at Bay
A Reminder at the Reunion
Letter to Hong Kong
Digging Out
Open and Honest
Ruff Love
I’m Right and You’re Wrong … OK?
An Honest Amend
A Letter from an Old Friend
The Twelve Steps
The Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous
AA Grapevine