Step Two: Coming to Believe

By Hazelden Publishing

This pamphlet covers AA’s Step Two: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity,” highlighting the Step’s importance and challenges, as well as what the spiritual nature of the program can mean to different people.

Step Two is important business. It’s where you begin to find or renew your relationship with a loving, guiding Power you can really trust. This Step may seem especially difficult the first time you encounter it. But it’s worth the time and energy to do Step Two well. By completing the Step, you become more spiritually aware, recognize the difference between sanity and insanity, and discover a special peace. You learn to trust the process of recovery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
• Release date: Jul 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781636340371

Book preview

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

—Step Two

INTRODUCTION

Step Two is where we begin to find our relationship with a loving, guiding Power we can really trust. This Step may seem especially difficult the first time we encounter it. But it’s worth our time and energy to do it well because through this Step we become more spiritually aware, recognize our insanity, and discover a sense of peace. We learn to trust the process of recovery as our lives begin to fall into place.

This pamphlet walks you through this Step:

Stepping in

Coming to believe

Looking to what helps you

Finding sanity

Stepping In

For too long, we relied on alcohol or other drugs to solve our problems. By the time we came into recovery, we may have forgotten healthy ways to deal with our lives, our problems, and our feelings. If we used substances…

to get through difficulties,

recovery helps us develop tools we can use during rough