1. Line up extra Recovery activities for the holiday season.Arrange to take newcomers to meetings, answer the phones at a clubhouse or central office,or help line, speak, help with dishes, or visit the detox ward at a hospital.2. Be host to Recovering friends, especially newcomers. If you don’t have a place where you can throw a formal party, take one person to a diner and spring for the coffee.
3. Keep your Recovery telephone list with you all the time. If a using or drinking urge or panic comes—postpone everything else until you’ve called someone in Recovery.
4. Find out about the special holiday parties, meetings, or other celebrations given by groups in your area, and go. If you’re timid, take someone newer than you are.
5. Skip any social occasion you are nervous about. Remember how clever you were at excuses when using or drinking? Now put the talent to good use. No office party is as important as saving your life.
6. If you have to go to a party and can’t take a Recovery friend with you, keep some candy handy.
7. Don’t think you have to stay late. Plan in advance an “important date” you have to keep.
8. Worship in your own way.
9. Don’t sit around brooding. Catch up on those books, museums, walks, and letters.
10. Don’t start now getting worked up about all those holiday temptations. Remember—“one day at a time.” And “Just for Today”
11. Enjoy the true spirit of holiday love and joy. Maybe you cannot give material gifts — but this year, you can give love.
12. “Having had a ….” No need to spell out the Twelfth Step here, since you already know it.
Adapted From a Box 459 Holiday Issue
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