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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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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

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

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 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 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: 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

5 Tips for Choosing a Recovery Sponsor

2020by Heidi

A guide, a mentor, a friend, a BB Nazi… so many choices!

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AA, ACOA, Al-Anon, Codependents Anonymous, Step 2, Step 2 Tips

Google Me Alcoholic

2020by Heidi

What do you mean, alcoholic?

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AA, Heidi HO

Relief or Release?

2020by Heidi

What do you want?

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AA, Step 1 Tips

Welcome To Recovery of Action

Featuredby Heidi

WHICH WAY?

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12 Steps, AA, Spirituality, Step 1 Tips

If You’re Doing Fine, Why Try The 12 Steps?

2020by Heidi

There are many ways to lose yourself, many different paths promising a sense of euphoria, comfort or peace. They’re usually some form of spree…

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Step 1 Tips, Thinking Outside The Bottle: 12 Steps for Anyone

Step 1: How Do I Start?

2020by Heidi

You don’t have to be an addict or even know one to take the 12 Steps

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12 Steps, Step 1 Tips, Thinking Outside The Bottle: 12 Steps for Anyone

A Brain Reboot for the Venomous Virus

2020by Heidi

I’ve got several phrases that help me.

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AA, Step 11 Tips

This is a test. This is only a test…right?

2020by Heidi

If this had been an actual emergency…

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Step 1 Application

Clean Sweep

2020by Heidi

Pick up a broom and give it a whirl!

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AA, Step 12 Application

The 12 Step Workout: Use It or Lose It

2020by Heidi

We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous and free.

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AA, Step 12, Step 12 Application

Cupcakes and Sweet Security

2020by Heidi

A month into Al-Anon I find that I am losing my job.

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AA, Al-Anon, Codependents Anonymous, Step 1 Application

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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12 Steps, Step 4, Step 4 Tips

Step 3: The Key To Making Decisions

2020by Heidi

Step 3 is not the action of turning our will and lives over, it’s deciding to do so. Let’s get specific. Which decision making elements do you usually use?

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12 Steps, Step 3 Tips

Step 3: Questions and Directions

2020by Heidi

There is something in me that rebels against familiar authoritarianism. Do I really want someone else to tell me what to think again? I hope not.

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12 Steps, Step 3 Tips

Step 3: Gargantua Tarantula

2020by Heidi

It’s 12 Steps, not 2. The Old Timers I love and respect are those who have serenity gained from taking all 12 and continuing to live in the principles.

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12 Steps, Step 3 Tips

Peace on Earth to (Sober) Men

2020by Heidi

Peace started for me during Step One when I admitted I was not all-powerful; that alcohol had me by the throat!

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12 Steps, Step 1 Application

Hemma! Hemma!

2020by Heidi

Hemma! Hemma! That’s what my brother and I used to yell when we wanted folks to hurry up. We used it with our friends at a time when other people […]

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12 Steps, Step 1, Step 1 Application, Step 1 Tips

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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Step 4 Application

Unique Self: Part 5 Perception Prisms A

2020by Heidi

In the Summer of 2008 I was sitting in a chapel beside a stain glass window that shed golden tones over my face, my hair and my hands clasped in […]

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Sober Living, Unique Self Series

Stop! Go to Step 3

2020by Heidi

I don’t think it matters whether your life path winds between empty bottles, baggies and syringes or is decorated by framed degrees and certificates of completion—or both. The message of […]

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12 Steps, Step 3 Tips

This Alcoholic Named Herself

2020by Heidi

When I first got sober, and was recognizing my character defects of Step 4, one of the other women told me, You don’t have to put on a sandwich board […]

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Step 1, Step 1 Application, Step 1 Tips

Steps 2 & 3: Finding My AA Parachute

2020by Heidi

It’s like someone else has my remote!

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Step 2 Tips

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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12 Steps, Step 4 Tips

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