How does sponsorship specifically help your recovery?
Sponsorship is essential to my recovery. I learned very early on in my recovery that if i didn’t sponsor, or didn’t have a sponsor I was depriving not only myself from recovery, I was also depriving my fellows from potential recovery that my sponsorship might have offered them. It is my responsibility to myself and to others to ensure I use all the tools of this program so that I can truly blossom within my fellowship. 🌻
– Anonymous
Sponsorship helps me in two ways. As a sponsee I am provided with many decades of ESH when I contact and discuss issues with my sponsor. When I sponsor, I am reminded of the path I have trodden. This can shine a light on areas where I need to focus my program.
-Anonymous.
Sponsorship is key to my recovery! As a sponsee it helped me recover, and as a sponsor it keeps me abstinent. I often say that it’s the blind leading the blind, but somehow it works. When I sponsor, I am working the steps all over again. There is always something new to learn, and my sponsees help me as much as I help them. Yes, I am a few steps ahead of them in the program, but they also have so many insights that help me in my own working of the program.
– Val B.
Sponsorship impacts my recovery in many ways. My sponsor showed me how to work the steps. She gives her experience, strength, and a whole lot of hope. She helps me to process my 10th steps so that I can remain free of resentments, make amends when I need to, and stay abstinent.
Being a sponsor is also, an important part of my journey. As I go over the literature with my sponsees, It keeps me fresh, and the repetition is helpful to my learning process. As I share about the unmanageability of my life and the hopelessness when I came into the room, it reminds me to stay in the solution. I am grateful for both my sponsor and my sponsees!
– Dawn S.
Submitted by: various members stated above
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