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Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 2, Column 3

2020by Heidi

Fear is like a bondage created by self.

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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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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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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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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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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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Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 3, Column 1 Continued

2020by Heidi

We bury our resentments.

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Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 2, Column 1

2020by Heidi 1 Comment

Start by listing the people you have resentments against.

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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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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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Whad ya mean….Selfish?

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

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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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Baby Stepping Fourth: Sexual Harms Part 1

2020by Heidi

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

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Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 4, Column 5

2020by Heidi

Fear feeds on dishonesty.

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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: Fear Inventory

2020by Heidi

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

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You Can Lead, But I Won’t Follow

2020by Heidi

What do you say to your Facebook friend who plasters negative political drama all over your timeline?

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BABY STEPPING FOURTH: DAY 7, COLUMN 5

2020by Heidi

Hit it hard! Column 5 of the 4th Step worksheet

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Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 4, Column 2

2020by Heidi

Second column instructions for doing the Step 4 Inventory

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Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 3, Column 1 Cont.

2020by Heidi

Column one on the 4th Step inventory is like digging in a graveyard. This is an easy way to gitr done

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Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 2 Column 1

2020by Heidi

Step 4 in one week!

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Whad Ya Mean… Self-Seeking?

2020by Heidi

Like traveling without any running lights…

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Step 4: Part 8 Talkin’ Trash and Sex

2020by Heidi

I grew up in the 50s–a time when sex education had not yet been invented.

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Step 4: Column 5 Peeling Back False Beliefs

2020by Heidi

I spent a lot of time with my grandparents absorbing survival skills: some good, some bad.

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Step 4: Column 5 Character Defects and The Foul Four

2020by Heidi

Putting out of our minds the wrongs other had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes.

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Step 4: Column 4 Ya But…

2020by Heidi

Ya but… (wheeze) the other guy is the problem! You’re just the victim, here.

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Step 4: Column 4 Tattletale

2020by Heidi

So, what’s wrong with being a Tattletale?

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Step 4: Column 3 Buddy Burner Gut Ignites

2020by Heidi

I’m a Fighter from a long line of Fighters. I don’t know what happens to you when you’re angry…

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Step 4: Are You A Friend Among Friends?

2020by Heidi

I was not. I’m still learning. At one time I thought I had the perfect life but it was built upon the proverbial shifting sand of illusions about myself. The […]

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Step 4: Column 2 The Cause Knot

2020by Heidi

Now that we have the first column naming people, institutions and principles we can move on to the second column.  (Refer to the Not Scary Resentments Worksheet of Step 4 in […]

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Step 4: Why It Works Like a Sticky Trap For Rats of Resentment

2020by Heidi

Do you have an inexplicable feeling of pending doom? Do you feel deep down lonely…

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Step 4: Column 1 Resentments, The Number One Offender

2020by Heidi

Take a good look at anything that riles you. What are your pet peeves?

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Step 4: Dirty Urchins, Raggedy People and Drunks

2020by Heidi

Everything was dirty, broken, piled up and rusty. I kept gagging…

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Step 4: As Long As You’re Green You’re Growing…

2020by Heidi

as soon as you’re ripe, you rot! There’s a lot of ripe ones out there…

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Step 4: Fearless Moral Inventory Shortcut

2020by Heidi

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. That’s Step 4, perhaps the scariest few words Bill W strung together in this 12 Step program. It seems to me […]

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Prison Of Self

2020by Heidi

The above picture is from a recent trip to Scotland. The gate makes me think of how my old thinking has kept me imprisoned. I took this picture during a […]

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Fudgesicles and Fear

2020by Heidi

So when AA suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride and his […]

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I Asked Him Why

2020by Heidi

Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. ~ AA p 59 Whenever I think about this step I flashback […]

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Fear: Courage on Steroids

2020by Heidi

Don’t mess with me, buddy!

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Step 4: Fishing for Fears

2020by Heidi

We were both barefooted in a canoe and I could see that Pike had lots of teeth.

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Step 8: Resentment Prayer

2020by Heidi

I wanted to find some wisdom shared with me by an old Hippie with long blond hair and beard who was from Dubuque, Iowa.

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