START OFF BY SHARING OUR TRUE SELVES -
" ... a sponsor [or mentor] can share with us his or her own experience with the steps. Listening to our sponsor's experience and applying it to our own lives is how we take advantage of one of the most beautiful and practical aspects of recovery: the therapeutic value of one addict helping another... ." (How Al-Anon Works, p. 56)
THE CHOICE IS YOURS -
"It may turn
out, however,
that you'll choose
someone else for the
more difficult and deep-
er revelations. This indi-
vidual may be entirely
outside of A.A.- for ex-
ample, your clergy-
man or your doc-
tor." (12 & 12,
p. 61)
"A friend should
be one in whose un-
derstanding and virtue
we can equally confide,
and whose opinion we
can value at once for
its justness and
its sincerity."
- Robert Hall (1764 - 1831) British clergyman

*HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself. Like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.