Sponsorship

Tools of Recovery

We have found it essential to our recovery to have a sponsor and to be a sponsor. A DA sponsor is a recovering debtor who guides us through the Twelve Steps and shares his or her own experience, strength and recovery.

We ask a sponsor to guide us through our program of recovery on all three levels: financial, emotional and spiritual. In working with other members of DA and sharing their experience, strength and hope, sponsors continually renew and reaffirm their own recovery. Sponsors share their program up to the level of their own experience. Ours is a program of attraction; find a sponsor who has what you want and ask how it was achieved. A member may work with more than one sponsor and may change sponsors at will.

DA-HOW sponsors are compulsive debtors who have at least 30 days of back-to-back abstinence and who have completed at least 30 days of questions. They set a regular time every day for their sponsees to call them, and are available for that call which typically lasts around fifteen minutes. Sponsors do not play God. We help each other.

As DA-HOW sponsees, we call our sponsors daily at the agreed-upon time. After a short prayer, we report our previous days' spending and commit our current days' planned spending. (This is done so we do not obsess over what, whether or how much to spend that day.) We read our previous day's assignment and then receive our next day's assignment. If time permits, we then discuss other matters related to our recovery.