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Ask it Basket Questions:

1. How are you taking recovery into the rest of your life, outside of meetings?

2. What does being “powerless” mean to you?

3. How is honesty growing in your life now, compared to when you were using?

4. How has your life changed since you got clean?

5. How was your life unmanageable when you were using? What about now?

6. Are you still isolating? How, and if not, what did you do to stop?

7. Talk about reservations -- the ones you had -- and the fear of ones you may still have.

8. What does addiction mean to you, and how did/does it affect your life?

9. Talk about the self-centeredness while using. Is it still affecting you, and how?

10. What does “came to believe” mean to you?

11. How do you change from “feeling apart from” to “feeling a part of”?

12. What are you most grateful for today? Share about blessings in your life.

13. How do you have fun clean? Share about your favorite things to do.

14. Who ran your life while you were using? What about now?

15. Talk about the relationships in your life, then and now.

16. What does “recovery” mean to you?

17. Who’s an Addict says, “We used to survive.” How do you survive today?

18. Talk about willingness. Has yours grown since you got clean?

19. How do you get out of those “spiritual slumps” that we all experience?

20. Defects of Character: Talk about the ones that are still bothering you.

21. How do resentments affect your life? What do you do about them?

22. What about service? How important is it, and what are you doing?

23. Since we can’t “fix” with dope anymore, what are you fixing with?

24. What does “spirituality” mean to you? How is it growing in your life?

25. How good are you at “letting go?” How has this changed for you?

26. What do you do on a daily basis to stay clean and grow? What would you like to do more of?

27. How important has “open-mindedness” been to your recovery? Share about how.

28. If you could change three things about your life right now, what would they be?

29. How do you treat someone who repeatedly goes back out and uses?

30. What is the importance of passionately welcoming and helping the newcomer?

31. What are the 12 Steps for?

32. What are the 12 Traditions for?

33. What is a sponsor for?

34. How do you deal with adversity now that you are clean?

35. What do you do to give back what you have gotten?

36. What is your favorite step?

37. How do you deal with family members, or anyone else outside the rooms, now that you are clean?

38. What does anonymity mean to you?

39. Pick a spiritual principal and share about it.

40. What are you doing to make the meetings you attend better than they would be without you?

41. How do I apply the First Step in my life?

42. Why is being clean not enough?

43. What do the words "over to the care of" mean to me?

44. Why is it OK to have a different Higher Power than anyone else?

45. Why is it necessary to do the Fifth Step?

46. What is the difference between defects & shortcomings?

47. How do I make amends to people I can't locate?