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Laugh Like a Kid. Life Is Short

2020by Heidi

Every wonder why people go to 12 Step meetings and come home acting just like before the meeting? This might just explain that…

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12 Step Meetings, AA

Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 2, Column 3

2020by Heidi

Fear is like a bondage created by self.

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12 Steps, Step 4, Step 4 Application, Step 4 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 1, Columns 1 & 2

2020by Heidi

Fears include the things that make me anxious, the things I dread and those that I worry about…

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Step 4, Step 4 Application, Step 4 Tips

Share Your Journey

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Looking for help with the 12 Steps? Take a look at these easy suggestions…

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12 Steps, AA

Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 7, Column 5

2020by Heidi

Want help with the 4th Step? Baby steps are easy with this 5 column Not Scary Worksheet…

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Step 4, Step 4 Application, Step 4 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 6, Column 4

2020by Heidi

What are my reactions to drama and to pain? This work can tell you what to change…

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Step 4, Step 4 Application, Step 4 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 5, Column 3

2020by Heidi

Looking for the reason you have issues? This may be just what you’re looking for…

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Step 4, Step 4 Application, Step 4 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 4, Column 2

2020by Heidi

Looking for help with that Step 4 of recovery? Look no further! This is simple…

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Step 4, Step 4 Application, Step 4 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 3, Column 1 Continued

2020by Heidi

We bury our resentments.

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Step 4, Step 4 Application, Step 4 Tips

2020by Heidi

 Not So Scary Resentments Worksheet of Step 4

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12 Steps

Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 2, Column 1

2020by Heidi 1 Comment

Start by listing the people you have resentments against.

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Step 4 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 1, Get Ready

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Using this method, complete your 4th in just 7 days.

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12 Steps, Step 4 Tips

Step 4: Distinctions Between Selfish and Self-Seeking in AA

2020by Heidi

Looking for the difference between selfish and self-seeking? Read this…

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Step 4 Tips

Dark Holidays? This One’s For You

2020by Heidi

Ready for a different kind of holiday? This worked for me.

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Addiction and Relationships

You Don’t Say (to an addict)

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When tied is a good thing.

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Addiction and Relationships, Relating to Addicts

Tips For Healing Part 4

2020by Heidi

Expectations and emotional baggage made the issue inevitable….

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12 Steps, Step 10, Step 10 Application, Step 10 Tips

Tips For Healing Part 3

2020by Heidi

If I was afraid things were going to get drastically worse for me…

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12 Steps

Tips For Healing Part 2

2020by Heidi

What causes our addictive behavior? Eliminate some of the pain…

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12 Steps, Step 10, Step 10 Application, Step 10 Tips

Tips For Healing Part 1

2020by Heidi

Not addicted to a substance? In this article, see how you can think outside the bottles…

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12 Steps, Step 10, Step 10 Application, Step 10 Tips, Thinking Outside The Bottle: 12 Steps for Anyone

Election Reaction and 15 Minute Solution

2020by Heidi

The very churning of my gut and lack of ability to feel any deep peace are the stereo alarms of my body and heart.

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12 Steps, Step 10 Tips

Pause When Agitated?

2020by Heidi

As we go through the day we pause when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. Pause. Oh, no. Remember I’m a sprinter? Pauses break my […]

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Step 11 Application

Whad ya mean….Selfish?

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Who knew? Not me, not before doing Step 4.

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Step 4, Step 4 Application, Step 4 Tips

Functional Alcoholic Signs

2020by Heidi

It’s so tricky to diagnose that I had friends telling me I couldn’t be alcoholic, even though I knew I was.

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Addiction and Relationships, Relating to Addicts, Step 1 Tips

Step 10 and the Not So Scary Worksheet Part 2: Henry The VIII

2020by Heidi

…another opportunity to grow, to become loving and humble like Henry, my dog.

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Step 10, Step 10 Application, Step 10 Tips

Step 1: Raising The White Flag

2020by Heidi

When I first quit drinking, I had a friend in AA that would wish ‘pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization’ on his drinking buddies.

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12 Steps, Step 1 Tips

What Do They Mean…Do The Next Right Thing?

2020by Heidi

Some people just naturally know what their NRT is. Do you?

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Step 1, Step 1 Application, Step 1 Tips

Shrinking Self

Featuredby Heidi

  The old ideas will be cast aside and a new set of motives will begin to  dominate the mind ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, p 27  

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12 Steps, Step 10, Step 10 Application

Relationship Issue Has You Stumped?

2020by Heidi

  This is true. There was a woman who found out from her mom that she’d been disinherited and the topic was skirted over like it shouldn’t be any big […]

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12 Steps, Relationship Skills, Spirituality

Step 8: Amends Preparation Part 2

2020by Heidi

“A good fight first thing in the morning gets my blood going!”

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Step 8 Application, Step 8 Tips, Step 9 Application, Step 9 Tips

Step 8: Amends Preparation Part 1

2020by Heidi

Need to clear up the past with someone?

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12 Steps, Relationship Skills, Step 8 Application, Step 8 Tips

Step 3: Part 6 The Director

2020by Heidi

It’s not my role to direct others. It’s my role to love them, support them by listening, and pray for them to find God’s direction

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12 Steps, Step 3 Tips

Everyone Is Addicted to Something

2020by Heidi

I was never in the gutter…not yet.

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12 Steps

Not So Scary Worksheets

Featuredby Heidi

Want to start on the Steps and need some suggestions? Begin here…

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12 Steps

Shipwrecked

2020by Heidi

A genuine voice

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12 Steps, Heidi HO, Step 1 Application

Step 3: Part 5 Lessons From The 70s on Willingness

2020by Heidi

My life lesson plan was handed to me with my bed tray at the age of 23!

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12 Steps, Step 3, Step 3 Application, Step 3 Tips

Step 3: Part 4 Flat-Out Decision

2020by Heidi

The way out was to get a clue! I thought I was supposed to be in charge of my own life, so I was.

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12 Steps, Step 3 Tips

Step 3 Part 2: ABCs of AA

2020by Heidi

Bill’s principles of AA… I laughed out loud when I heard this. (Learn what hit the editor’s floor.)

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12 Steps, Step 3, Step 3 Tips

Step 3: Part 1 Connected

2020by Heidi

My life wasn’t happy, but I felt like I was in control. For some reason, that made sense to me.

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12 Steps, Step 3

Step 3: Self-willed and Controlling? Who…Me?

2020by Heidi

I don’t understand the intricate workings of denial, but I’m at the same time, well-acquainted with it.

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Spirituality, Step 3, Step 3 Application, Step 3 Tips

Step 3: Examine Inconsistencies

2020by Heidi

Here’s the confession: When I’m doing well, it’s not really me doing it. It’s the power within.

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Spirituality, Step 3 Tips

Step 3: Remodel Me

2020by Heidi

My most traumatic experience with remodeling isn’t filed in a picture database anywhere …

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AA, Step 3 Tips

Step 3: I Swore I’d Never…

2020by Heidi

What did you resolve that you’d never do when you were a kid?

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12 Steps, Step 3 Tips

Step 3: In 2 Deep

2020by Heidi

What person causes you the most stress no matter what you try?

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12 Steps, Step 3 Tips

The Real AA: Chris and Myers R

2020by Heidi

Chris R’s AA speaker tapes are among the top-most downloaded in the world. Find out why.

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12 Steps

Step 3: What’s Your Keystone?

2020by Heidi

Looking closely at this arch in Glendalough, Ireland, you can see there is no mortar…

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12 Steps, Step 3 Application, Step 3 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Sexual Harms Part 2

2020by Heidi

We asked God to mold our ideals and help us to live up to them.

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AA, Step 4 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Sexual Harms Part 1

2020by Heidi

Take a deep breath and let’s git’r done!

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Step 4 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 4, Column 5

2020by Heidi

Fear feeds on dishonesty.

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12 Steps, Step 4 Tips

Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 3, Column 4

2020by Heidi

Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it didn’t fully solve the fear problem, or any other.

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Step 4 Tips

Step 4: Fear Inventory

2020by Heidi

I never knew anyone who was so afraid of everything!”

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12 Steps, Step 4 Tips

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