
Their Step Work or even have much sobriety, but they still can help you be accountable.Ībstinence from his/her addictive patterns A recovery partner might not be further ahead in This tool canīe a valuable addition to your sponsor. That you ask your life partner to be your recovery partner. Shaming by a recovery partner is not acceptable. Your partner mayīe a member of your group, a friend in recovery, your therapist, or a good friend.Ī recovery partner must be someone you trust and with whom you feel safe. To ask you and that you have agreed to answer honestly. That person should have a list of questions - very specific questions . Make an agreement with someone to check in - daily if at all possible. Being accountable to someone is an important anchor for sobriety. Partners (RP's), like sponsors, help us be accountable and stay on our recovery You find someone that is better match for your mutual recovery. You can always change sponsors later if the relationship does not work out or We suggest that you find a sponsor quickly, even if they are only temporary. Having been in situations similar to ours, taking care not to give advice.

A sponsor shares his or her own experience and feelings from Seeing the imperfections in our sponsors helps relieve us of our own compulsion With struggles and confusion, just as anyone else in the Fellowship. As such, a sponsor does not counselįrom a pretense of higher moral ground. Our sponsor is, in fact, a fellow addict. Whom we do not pay, and from whom we seek neither absolution nor judgment. A sponsor is a person with whom we have no ulterior motive, Support and guidance in applying the S.L.A.A. A sponsor is a person who gives us individual With more sobriety and program experience.

As part of the surrender process, we admit our It can provideĪ framework for a recovery plan, working the Twelve Steps, and bringing emotional The same problem helping each other to work the program.
