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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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

Get Your Feet Off the Wheel, Buddy!

2020by Heidi

Who’s in the drivers’ seat?

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AA, ACOA, Al-Anon, CODA, Step 10, Step 10 Application, Step 10 Tips

Finding Someone to Sponsor

2020by Heidi

Jot these questions in your cell so you’re prepared.

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AA, Start Sponsoring, Step 12 Tips

WORKSHEET STEP 1

2020by Heidi

How do you define ‘unmanageable’?

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AA, Step 1 Tips

Take The Steps for Your Emotional Health

2020by Heidi

The 12 Steps are for all of us

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AA

90 Meetings?

2020by Heidi

Are we keeping the gate closed?

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AA, Step 12 Tips

12 Step Programs Aren’t Therapy

2020by Heidi

Guess what’s inside this AA meeting!

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AA, Step 12 Tips

Welcome To Recovery of Action

Featuredby Heidi

WHICH WAY?

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12 Steps, AA, Spirituality, Step 1 Tips

What Is God’s Will?

2020by Heidi

I no longer feel I have to ‘prove’ anything to you or to me

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AA, Step 1 Tips

Dear Me,

2020by Heidi

December 31, 2012 Dear Me, I probably know less about you than some people and more than the casual observer, but I do know a few things: You love to […]

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Al-Anon, Step 1 Tips

God As We Understood Him

2020by Heidi

Thinking, learning, figuring things out with my pea brain…

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Step 2, Step 2 Tips

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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12 Steps, AA, Step 4 Tips

Anxiety: Part 2 Hey There! Hold On A Sec!

2020by Heidi

There’s a lot of ‘holding’ going on during the last three points.

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AA, Step 1 Tips

Anxiety: Part 1 Pull on the Nail

2020by Heidi

Can you find something that weighs on your mind?

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12 Steps, Beginnings, Step 1 Tips

Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

2020by Heidi

My life would make a better movie than it does a life.

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AA, Step 1 Application

Step11: Where Are You From?

2020by Heidi

Possibly behind the presenting question is the thought: “You’re not one of us, are you?” I’m not sure why we react to ‘foreigners’ this way, but it’s human nature to try to align the ‘us’ from the ‘them’. We separate out the locals from the others like sorting through the box of puzzle pieces for the border.

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12 Steps, Step 11, Step 11 Application

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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12 Steps, Step 4, Step 4 Tips

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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12 Steps, Step 4, Step 4 Tips

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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12 Steps, Step 4, Step 4 Tips

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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12 Steps, Step 4, Step 4 Tips

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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12 Steps, Step 4, Step 4 Tips

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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12 Steps, Step 4, Step 4 Application

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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12 Steps, Step 4 Application

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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12 Steps, Step 4, Step 4 Application

Step 2: AA Drifter Returns to the Bunkhouse of Childhood Faith

2020by Heidi

I have the clearest memory of childhood discussions and a collection of bunkhouse adventures with God. This skinless friend was more real …

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Spirituality, Step 11 Application

Step 3: What Grows in the Dark?

2020by Heidi

What keeps you awake at night?

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12 Steps, Spirituality, Step 3 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

How Did I Set My Password For AA Serenity?

2020by Heidi

During early sobriety it seemed that all the characters around the table except me had a secret password that allowed them to log into a new life of peace and serenity. I’d never seen anything like these hooligans.

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AA Meetings, Step 11 Application

Step 3: Whistling In The Dark

2020by Heidi

Do I miss drinking? Sometimes. I miss it to the extent that I’m still insane. I was not created for self-destruction but alcohol is a one way ticket to that insanity. It waits.

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12 Steps, Spirituality, Step 3 Tips

Step 3: I Can Skip This if I’m a Christian, Right?

2020by Heidi

The question I should have asked when I dropped into AA was, Is there a difference between step 3 and salvation for a Christian?

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12 Steps, Step 3 Application

Step 11: Do You Meditate In Color?

2020by Heidi

This is my prayer corner. The colored pencils are from Iowa. I bought them at an art supply store when I started coloring during prayer. Bear with me. I can explain…maybe.

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Spirituality, Step 11 Tips

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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12 Steps, Step 4 Tips

No Disk

2020by Heidi

My addiction started harmlessly.

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Sober Living, Step 1 Application

Unconflicted and Better Than a Hallelujah

2020by Heidi

I agree with Chaz and his Unconflicted post. I am unconcerned about Bill’s personal life. He was a tool for getting the Biblical principles into our hands. I was not […]

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AA Big Book, Reblogged Inspiration, Step 12 Application

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

Victim Veins Revisited

2020by Heidi

You call it love. For years, all I wrote was bad, tragic and tearful poetry. Then life got better because I got sober and I gave up poetry. Suddenly, this […]

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12 Steps, Step 12 Application

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