AA's 12 Promises
The mission of AA promises to outline the positive changes and experiences that you may anticipate as you work through the Twelve Steps.]
- You will be amazed before you are halfway through: As you begin your journey of recovery, you may find unexpected joy and relief early on.
- You are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness: You can experience a sense of liberation from the burdens of addiction and discover happiness.
- You will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. As you heal, you will learn to accept your past without letting regret hold you back.
- You will comprehend the word serenity and know peace: Many people in recovery find a profound sense of calm and peace in their lives.
- No matter how far down the scale you have gone, you will see how your experience can benefit others: You might realize that your struggles can serve as a source of hope and guidance for others facing the same challenges.
- That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear: You can expect fewer feelings of worthlessness and a newfound sense of purpose.
- You will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in your fellows: Recovery often fosters greater empathy and concern for others.
- Self-seeking will slip away: As you grow in your recovery, you may become less focused on your own desires and more on helping others.
- Your whole attitude and outlook upon life will change: You might experience a significant shift in perspective, leading to a more positive and hopeful outlook.
- Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave you: Many find that their fears diminish as they develop confidence in their recovery and support from others.
- You will intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle you: You may find that you can approach new challenges without reverting to old habits.
- You will suddenly realize that God is doing for you what you could not do for yourself: Many come to recognize the role of a higher power in their recovery journey.
About Jason Bresnehan
Jason Bresnehan is a fixer—of businesses, of broken momentum, and occasionally of entire spiritual frameworks gone sideways. He speaks fluent boardroom and AA, deploys Catholic doctrine with the subtlety of a scalpel, and isn’t afraid to lace his insights with both war-room metaphors and dad-sermon tenderness.
Founder of Evahan, a consultancy built on the idea that legacy and liquidity don’t need to fight, Jason draws on 30 years of commercial grit, tactical leadership, and emotional radar to help people rebuild what entropy took. He works with companies, communities, and recovery misfits alike—often using the same principles to sort both cap tables and chaotic lives.
He’s finalising his first book—a memoir-in-doctrine forged in the trenches of alcoholic recovery, endurance motorsport obsession, and spiritual trench marches. That book, partly teased on his Pursuit of Luck blog, is the cornerstone of a broader movement to connect practical wisdom with satirical grit, spiritual heat, and a recovery roadmap lined with breadcrumbs and tactical grace.
He hasn’t accepted a book deal yet. He’s waiting to find an agent with the right blend of shared craziness—someone fluent in spiritual paradox, recovery warfare, and satire laced with spreadsheet rigor. Because Jason’s writing doesn’t sit in a genre.
It accelerates between them. His work echoes with tones of:
- Liturgical recovery memoirs that swap incense for henna tattoos and serenity for tactical doctrine
- Fixer theology, where the Four Foundation Stones wear combat boots and surrender is something you fight for
- Business noir, told through deal sheets, war metaphors, and philosophical whiplash
- And field manuals for misfits, blending Catholic teachings with AA trench wisdom, narrated like a Wes Anderson fever dream with Mark Wahlberg voiceovers
When Jason writes, the reader isn’t just entertained. They’re recalibrated. When he speaks, the crowd doesn’t just listen. They shift posture. When he fixes, the thing stays fixed.
If you’re wondering what he does, the answer is this:
He helps people fix what they didn’t think could be fixed.
Then he points them toward grace—and lets the luck decide the tempo.