CHAPTER 05 · PAGES 58–71
How It Works
An introduction to the Twelve Steps and the beginning of a personal inventory.
Read. Pause. Talk.
Read this chapter in your own Big Book or through AA’s official online edition. Notice what feels familiar, what challenges you, and what you would like to ask someone at the meeting.
Open the official Big BookChoose “How It Works” in AA’s chapter list. This page is a reading guide, not the full chapter.
Bring your questions
You don’t have to agree with or understand every sentence straight away. Reading together gives us a chance to listen and learn from lived experience.