The Dogs is an online, closed men's 12 step meeting that meets every Monday at 12pm EST. Whether you are just starting out on your journey to sobriety, or have years under your belt, our door is open to all.
"Most of us begin making certain kinds of direct amends from the day we join Alcoholics Anonymous."
- 12&12, Step Nine, p.83
"But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness."
- 12&12, step Seven, p.72
"Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection."
- BB, 12&12, step Six, p.68
"Could we then foresee that troublesome people were to become our principal teachers of patience and tolerance?"
- 12&12, Tradition Three, p.141
The Dogs meetings are primarily based on the 12 steps. Feel free to click on a step below to open the pdf from the AA.org website.
We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, especially alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.