Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 2, Column 3
Fear is like a bondage created by self.
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Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 1, Columns 1 & 2
Fears include the things that make me anxious, the things I dread and those that I worry about…
Tips For Healing Part 4
Expectations and emotional baggage made the issue inevitable….
Step 10 and the Not So Scary Worksheet Part 2: Henry The VIII
…another opportunity to grow, to become loving and humble like Henry, my dog.
Step 8: Amends Preparation Part 2
“A good fight first thing in the morning gets my blood going!”
Step 8: Amends Preparation Part 1
Need to clear up the past with someone?
Step 3: Part 4 Flat-Out Decision
The way out was to get a clue! I thought I was supposed to be in charge of my own life, so I was.
Step 3: Self-willed and Controlling? Who…Me?
I don’t understand the intricate workings of denial, but I’m at the same time, well-acquainted with it.
5 Tips for Choosing a Recovery Sponsor
A guide, a mentor, a friend, a BB Nazi… so many choices!
Google Me Alcoholic
What do you mean, alcoholic?
Relief or Release?
What do you want?
Welcome To Recovery of Action
WHICH WAY?
If You’re Doing Fine, Why Try The 12 Steps?
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…
Step 1: How Do I Start?
You don’t have to be an addict or even know one to take the 12 Steps
A Brain Reboot for the Venomous Virus
I’ve got several phrases that help me.
This is a test. This is only a test…right?
If this had been an actual emergency…
Clean Sweep
Pick up a broom and give it a whirl!
The 12 Step Workout: Use It or Lose It
We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous and free.
Cupcakes and Sweet Security
A month into Al-Anon I find that I am losing my job.
Step 4: Column 1 Resentments, The Number One Offender
Take a good look at anything that riles you. What are your pet peeves?
Step 3: The Key To Making Decisions
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?
Step 3: Questions and Directions
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.
Step 3: Gargantua Tarantula
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.
Peace on Earth to (Sober) Men
Peace started for me during Step One when I admitted I was not all-powerful; that alcohol had me by the throat!
Hemma! Hemma!
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 […]
I Asked Him Why
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 […]
Unique Self: Part 5 Perception Prisms A
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 […]
Stop! Go to Step 3
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 […]
This Alcoholic Named Herself
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 […]
Steps 2 & 3: Finding My AA Parachute
It’s like someone else has my remote!
Step 4: Fishing for Fears
We were both barefooted in a canoe and I could see that Pike had lots of teeth.
