Ways and Means News is the quarterly newsletter for the fellowship of Debtors Anonymous and can be downloaded complementary.

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Books

All DA literature can be ordered through the DA World Service Office in Massachusetts by using one of the Order Forms below under Pamphlets.

A Currency of Hope

Our first Conference-approved book shares the recovery stories of 38 D.A. members, what it was like before D.A., and how our program has helped them create lives filled with serenity solvency, and prosperity.

Also includes the 12 Steps, 12 Traditions, 12 Tools, Signposts, and Q&A about D.A.

Item # B-102, soft cover, 200 pages, $12.45

Monthly Record-keeper

Pamphlets

All DA literature can be ordered through the DA World Service Office in Massachusetts by using one of the Order Forms below

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Anonymity
Find out why we are anonymous! Clarifies the role of anonymity as a personal and spiritual principle and defines our public relations perspective on anonymity at the level of the mass media.
This pamphlet has been discontinued. The text is available to download and print/reproduce for group use.

                        Anonymity.pdf

Awareness
Describes why "eternal vigilance" is the price of recovery from compulsive debting. Sharpens our knowledge of external social and cultural pressures to debt-how manipulation and advertising "triggers" affect us. Enhances our insight into our own internal pressures to debt-how our personalities and family histories affect our disease.
Item #P-116, 8 pages, $.80

Business Debtors Anonymous
Meetings of Business Debtors Anonymous (B.D.A.) are composed of members of the fellowship who are business owners. Explains the warning signs for debting in business and provides tools for running our businesses.
Item #P-122, 8 pages, $.80

Business Meetings 
Learn how attending business meetings helps us to grow in maturity, tolerance, and self-confidence. Describes what happens at a D.A. business meeting, who participates, and what kinds of service members share there.
Item #P-115, 8 pages, $.80

Communicating with Creditors
Read about D.A. experience in working with creditors in a spiritual way that enhances your recovery. Addresses how to overcome vagueness, work through your fears, ask for help, use debt moratoriums, and make and keep commitments to repay creditors.
Item #P-112, 12 pages, $.80

Debt Payment
Outlines D.A.'s unique philosophy on debt repayment as a spiritual practice and why and how our approach differs from other methods. Shows you how to consider your needs as well as those of your creditors, how to work with your creditors, and how to apply D.A. principles to create a debt repayment plan. A must for newcomers!
Item #P-109, 8 pages, $.80

Debtors Anonymous
In this introduction to the program, learn why compulsive debting is a disease and how D.A. can help you recover. Includes a questionnaire to help you determine if your problems with money and debt identify you as a compulsive debtor.
Item #P-101, 12 pages, $1.10

Fifteen Questions Leaflet
This 4 by 9-inch checklist of questions will be helpful to newcomers to your meeting and at public information events or mailings.
Item #P-118, 1 page, $.20 (minimum order 10)

Meetings
Describes what happens at D.A. meetings and why they are an integral part of our recovery program. Explains what to expect at a meeting, the benefits of attendance, and the gifts of sharing our experience, strength and hope with others.
Item #P-104, 12 pages, $.80

Pressure Relief Groups and Pressure Relief Meetings
Explains how these unique, powerful tools help remove the pressure from you and encourage you to live an abundant life. Includes how to set up a pressure relief group, what happens at them, and what joy you may experience as you recover from compulsive debting.
Item #P-108, 16 pages, $1.10

Record Keeping
Explains how this foundational tool of D.A. - keeping track of our income, expenses and debt repayment - leads us from vagueness to clarity. Discusses what types of records to keep, what categories to use, and how we can benefit from this powerful tool.
Item #P-105, 12 pages, $.80

Service
Thoroughly explains service as one of the Twelve Tools of recovery. Describes why service is crucial to our recovery and how we can receive the vast rewards-and avoid the pitfalls-of service. Discusses all levels of service from our local groups to the World Conference.
Item #P-102, 12 pages, $.80

Spending Plan
Explains how this tool help us to put our needs first, so that we need never debt again. Learn the difference between a spending plan and a budget, the different kinds of spending plans, and why a spending plan is our blueprint for financial recovery.
Item #P-106, 16 pages, $.80

Sponsorship
Much of our recovery happens in our one-on-one conversations with our sponsors. Find out what to expect from sponsorship, how to obtain a sponsor, and how to reach out with this tool so both participants benefit.
This pamphlet has been discontinued. The text is available to download and print/reproduce for group use.

    Sponsorship.doc   

The Numbers: One Approach
This 10-page booklet is designed to provide specific assistance to DA members seeking ideas about how to set up financial records. There is no one "right way" to do recordkeeping in DA. This method is based on one approach that many DA members have found helpful. The booklet is a convenient 5.5 x 8.5" size to take with you to Pressure Relief Meetings.
Item #P-128, 10 pages, $2.00   
Item #P-128-a, 10 pages, Package of 12 - $20.00

The Promises
Working Steps One through Nine of Debtors Anonymous will produce changes in the debtor. This leaflet describes some of those changes.
Item #P-123, 1 page, $.20 (minimum order 10)
 

The Twelve Steps of Debtors Anonymous
Embark upon a spiritual journey with the Twelve Steps of D.A., the source of our unity and the foundation of our recovery. Follow countless other debtors on the path to serenity and freedom from debting by working D.A.'s 12-step program. In this pamphlet you will discover principles to help you create a deeper more fulfilling connection to a power greater than yourself as you transform your relationship to money, debt, spending and earning.
Item #P-125, 20 pages, $1.50

Twelve Signs Leaflet
On card stock, this reasonably priced, single column piece is ideal for newcomers and Share-A-Day events. It provides clear descriptions of debting behaviors.
Item #P-117, 1 page, $.20 (minimum order 10)

Twelve Tools Leaflet
Members will want this 4 by 9 inch listing of the tools of recovery from compulsive debting. 
Item #P-119, 1 page, $.20 (minimum order 10)

Underearning
First pamphlet addressing underearning for the compulsive debtor. Topics include: What is an Underearner? What are the signs of Underearning? How can we recover from Underearning? How does Debtors Anonymous help?
Item #P-124, 16 pages, $1.10

Using the Telephone and the Internet
Describes how this tool helps us reach out for help and free us from our isolation. Discusses the kinds of phone calls we make, whom we call and when, and how it feels to use this tool.  Updated with a discussion about e-mail and other forms of online communication.
Item #P-110, 8 pages, $.80

Visions
Defines the concept of 'visions' in D.A. Shows members how to form a clear, specific picture of what they want to do and to have in their lives. Can act both as a blueprint for meetings or pressure relief groups and as a blueprint for the future.
Item #P-113, 8 pages, $.80

Monthly Record-keeper

This checkbook sized booklet is formatted with a helpful listing of categories and days of the month, making record-keeping an easy, pleasant task.
Item # P-120, 15 pages, $.80 each
Item # P-121, package of 12, $8.00

Events

Hawaii Debtors Anonymous Intergroup will host events from time to time.  Currently there are no scheduled events.