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Lin
Junior Member
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 Posted - 09/28/2007 : 18:37:03
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I hear this question often at my meetings.
For me it was easy. I just listened and listened at meetings. I found people who had worked the steps. I found people who I knew were working the program. Then I took the chance of calling them on the phone to talk now and then. When I found the one I felt most comfortable talking to, I asked her to be my sponsor. She agreed! Even though she has since moved several states away, we ar still very close and keep in contact.
So putting it in simpler terms, I listened for a person who had what I wanted and I ASKED!
How did you find a sponsor?
LIN
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MajestyJo
Average Member
Canada
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Posted - 09/29/2007 : 07:04:01
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I took, looked for someone who had what I wanted and asked. I have had an AA sponsor and Co-Sponsor (a woman who was a counsellor in recovery), and Al-Anon Sponsor, a Service Sponsor, a NA sponsor, and a Spiritual Advisor.
In today, I have an AA Sponsor I seldom can connect with and an Al-Anon sponsor that I call regularly. She does a lot of travelling but when she is away, I pick up the phone and contact others. A phone list was really important for me. Having gone to so many fellowships, I have had a lot of good people put in my path over the years. We can do what I can't do alone. It is important for me not to isolate. It is part of my disease not my recovery. Picking up the phone was as important in the good times as the not so good times.
I have had several AA sponsors over the years. They each taught me a lesson and helped me with different areas in my life. When the pupil was ready, the teacher appeared. A couple of ladies, I left and went back to. When I felt they were not living the kind of program I needed in my life, I detached. I still phone or see them at meetings.
Three sponsors passed away, another was sick, another got a man in her life and had no time for a sponsee, and another left the fellowship.
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Edited by - MajestyJo on 10/14/2007 22:56:13 |
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Lin
Junior Member
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Posted - 11/16/2007 : 19:43:20
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You got tha tright dean. We do tneed that one on one. THa't s why6 the f2f meetigns are so important. I love the online for those in between times. But the humnan contact is jsut what I eneded.
I read once..when we hear a person say jsut what we need to hear it was "GOD WITH SKIN"...meaning he speaks to us thru those around us.
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How do you find a sponosr?
