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Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

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Bill Wilson referred to AA as a 'Spiritual Kindergarten'. If that is so, then the material in 'Drop The Rock' is for those of us at the Masters or Doctoral level.

This book is NOT for the newcomer. Nor is it for those who are blissfully filling their days by 'not drinking and going to meetings'. 'Drop The Rock' is clearly targeted at those who have been sober for some time, but find there are still persistent annoying life problems that resist the all the work one has put into fixing these flaws.

This book is short, concise and to the point. The authors have left out much of the new-agey recovery jargon and slogans that weighs down most meetings. Instead, they approach Steps 6&7 from a practical and logical perspective which demystifies the two steps on which so much of our future happiness hangs.

It is an excellent book. One which you could build a meeting or study group around. However, the book is not for everyone. 'Drop The Rock' is only for those who know the intense hunger of desiring real change in life.



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This book de mystifies the process of removing character defects. IF you are struggling with what to do with the short directions on step six, this is the book. It gives a detailed description of the life long process of eliminating the defects that we have made into our personalities. As in all things in recovery it guides us through the tentative first steps. I have been searching for a book like this for a very long time. This book has changed the course of my recovery for the better.

Before I read the book I was looking for practical advice on how to do the whole process of removing my character defects-I found all the answers in this little book. It is a practical, hands-on guide to spiritual and emotional growth.I am so grateful to have been recommended to read it by so many other OA members.

For those who need it, and unforunately there are a great many of us, this is a fine book for the "midpoint" of the 12 steps. It is a good place to stop, the first time thru or on a revisit, and re evaluate what you are doing. This book focuses on the reality on that many recovering alcoholics have begun to do the steps by number and by rote at this stage. They have given up drinking, and little else. The book focuses on the need, and the techniques, for dropping the other character flaws which weighted down our spiritual backpaack. A fine and needed book.

The author calls 6 & 7 the forgotten steps. I worked the 12 steps with a sponsor and am working through them again. I picked up this book along with a real desire for real change in my life. I've been merrily going along my sober way but this book had me digging deep to bring those shortcomings to light. This is a must have for anyone working the 12 steps with an honest desire for change.

Wow! I have been in the program for almost 24 years and this is one of the best books on the 6th and 7th steps I have ever read. i am buying 10 copies to have for all of my friends in the program who after many years still suffer from hanging on to our character defects. i recommend it to anyone in the program. its about taking action!

This book will help anyone - 12 stepper or not. It brings areas of your life to light, allowing you to see your part in it and how you use it. A great source for anyone wanting to grow and change into a better person, the person God intended you to be.

This book is phenomenal! It is a must have for anyone serious about true recovery. There is no reason we should be prisoners to our own character flaws. Break the chains, drop the rock, call it what you will, but quit living in the problem and start living in the solution. Talk is cheap. It takes practice and time.

The main reason I wanted to write this review is to warn people about the misleading information about the number of pages. I decided to buy the second edition (150 pages) because I though it had been substantially changed from the first edition (96 pages). If you base the page count on the 96 pages of the first edition, then this second edition has only 91 pages. So it's not possible for it to have changed substantially. I was a little upset when I first got it, but I decided to justify the purchase through the study of the actual differences, which can't be many. OK, so if you own the first edition, don't think this one is much different.

Peace and Love, fits like a glove.

As I worked my own 12-Step program, I found that I was having some difficulty grasping the purpose and true meaning of Steps 6 and 7. They seemed too easy, and that made me worry I wasn't understanding them deeply enough.

This book helped me explore those two critical steps in much more depth than the Big Book, the 12 & 12, the Little Red Book, or any "conference-approved" literature. As I read the book I discussed it with my sponsor and other program members, and found a much deeper comprehension of Steps 6 and 7.

The in-their-own-words accounts of dozens of people scattered throughout the book provide a variety of experiences (some very "real world" and pragmatic) to help illustrate exactly how we can truly be "entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character" and then take the step daily to "humbly ask him to remove our shortcomings".

Although Drop the Rock is not program accepted, a group of ladies is doing a book study. This book does more than anything else I have every seen to explain steps 6 & 7 of the 12 step recovery program of Alcoholics Anonymous. We read a section or two and discuss how it hits a chord, something that has happened that will explain the concept better to others, or just a feeling that we associate with it. Some of it is very intense and has to be gone over in smaller sections. The eight week study we planned is going to last at least twice that. It is a great book in which we can study these steps that people normally float through.