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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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12 Steps, Step 4 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

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 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

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 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: 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: 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 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

Do You Have the Necessary Tools For Sponsorship?

2020by Heidi

Should you be a sponsor?

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AA, Sponsoring, Start Sponsoring, Step 12 Tips

Help Me VS Gratitude

2020by Heidi

What is implied by the ‘help me’?

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AA, Step 11 Tips

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

What’s This Spiritual Malady?

2020by Heidi

Sick of the sprees (alcohol, drugs, food, sex, spending, gambling, etc) and wanting something other than defeating obsessions and thoughts of suicide…

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

Step 1: Dangerous Lesson Learned In Kindergarten

2020by Heidi

A five-year-old’s birthday party set me on the path of spiritual destruction…

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Step 1 Tips

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

My Rebel Thoughts Refuse Captivity

2020by Heidi

‘taking thoughts captive’ was my goal but achieving it eluded me …

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Step 1 Application

Little Fists Solution

2020by Heidi

Little Fists happen when I start to criticize myself.

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Step 2 Tips

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 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: 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 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: 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

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

Is Your God Silent? Are you?

2020by Heidi

Before I got sober at the age of 55, I was trapped by an ice storm at an abbey near Dubuque, in NE Iowa. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. […]

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Spirituality, Step 3 Tips

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

Peachy Contentment

2020by Heidi

AA Old Timer helped me see that I need to add some ‘fluff’ to my life

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Sober Living, Step 3 Application

Fear Epiphany: Pieces of My Peace

2020by Heidi

I had an epiphany yesterday. I’ve recently bought a new fifth wheel and requisite dually. Along with that comes more room to live and more financial pressure. (Did you catch […]

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Spirituality, Step 12 Application

My Lower Power

2020by Heidi

I don’t feel like writing today so I’m going to. I’m going to write. I didn’t feel like walking this morning either, so I did. I walked. I’ve been doing […]

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Spirituality, Step 10 Application

HFA: Shhhh

2020by Heidi

I’m an HFA (High-Functioning Alcoholic). Who knew? No one. Sometimes that’s the point. Secrecy, silent suffering, and deadly choices all whirl towards the alcoholic drain that becomes the high-functioning alcoholic’s […]

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Addiction and Relationships, Relating to Addicts

Know This

Featuredby Heidi

I’m a recovered alcoholic, living full-time in an RV and have a bread machine in the Jeep. Why would anyone listen to me?

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Spirituality, Step 3 Application

Batter-y-up!

2020by Heidi

Given that the word why is used over 90 times in the Big Book of AA and in the 12×12, I assume it’s a big question for a lot of us.

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Step 2 Tips

Lipstick Forgiveness

2020by Heidi

When I was 5, my best friend and I got matching tubes of candy lipstick.

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12 Steps, Step 5 Application

Unique Self: Part 1 This Addict’s Dark Side

2020by Heidi

I desperately wanted answers to life. I knew only God had them but how would I get them?

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Unique Self Series

The Fighting Alcoholic Meets The Cowardly Lion

2020by Heidi

At first, I thought of really cutting and accurate remarks that I could make to her in my defense and then I surprised myself by realizing that I don’t want to do that.

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Addiction and Relationships, Sober Living, Step 10 Application

Become Your Own Counselor: Part 6 Prayer

2020by Heidi

This is the final post in the series of Becoming Your Own Counselor. Personally, I’ve not had any progress in personal or spiritual growth that can be traced back to […]

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Spirituality

Become Your Own Counselor Part 4: Seek Wisdom

2020by Heidi

To become your own counselor you will be filling your life and thoughts with wisdom from God instead of allowing others to control your life and define you. This is […]

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Be Your Own Counselor, Spirituality

Become Your Own Counselor Part 3: Seek Solitude and Silence

2020by Heidi

This picture is one Debbie took at OLM in Iowa while she was on retreat at the Stone House. Once you’ve  located your retreat spot and made reservations, there are […]

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Be Your Own Counselor, Spirituality

Become Your Own Counselor Part 2: Discovering Your Own Retreat Spot

2020by Heidi

When my best friend turned 40, our Bible Study group gave her an unconventional present, but one that I feel was divinely inspired. On the given week, she was told […]

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Be Your Own Counselor, Spirituality

Become Your Own Counselor: Part 1 Lock and Load with Truth

2020by Heidi

I’ve been talking to someone who just got out of an abusive relationship. What amazes me is that she’s out because she finally stopped listening to paid professionals, stopped listening […]

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Be Your Own Counselor, Spirituality

Fear: Courage on Steroids

2020by Heidi

Don’t mess with me, buddy!

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Spirituality, Step 4 Application, Step 6 Tips

Step 9: Part 1 The Cure for Remorse

2020by Heidi

My step 9 destiny all started when I was born with red hair.

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Step 9 Tips

Step 8: Amends and Amen

2020by Heidi

I’m not going to write about this. Am I? I

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Step 8 Tips

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