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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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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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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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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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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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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: Remodel Me

2020by Heidi

My most traumatic experience with remodeling isn’t filed in a picture database anywhere …

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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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I GOT THIS!

2020by Heidi

Really?

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Step 3: What Grows in the Dark?

2020by Heidi

What keeps you awake at night?

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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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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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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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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

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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Unique Self: Part 8 The Little Engine Meets Reality

2020by Heidi

I was deceived by the Little Engine That Could!

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Unique Self: Part 7 – I Think Not

2020by Heidi

When I was little there was a book and a song about the Little Engine That Could. I realize the intent was to eliminate negative self-talk. But AA has taught […]

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Sober Living, Unique Self Series

Unique Self Part 6: Prism Perceptions B

2020by Heidi

* Suddenly, I want to contact people from my past. I’m 57. Looking back on my early years, I know enough now to realize that I must have been very […]

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Sober Living, Unique Self Series

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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Unique Self: Part 4 Some Answers

2020by Heidi

B. You accept who you are by beginning to find your unique self Yesterday we looked at some questions to help us learn a bit more about our unique identity. […]

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Unique Self: Part 3 Question Yourself

2020by Heidi

What do you want to be remembered for when you die?

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The Unique Self: Part 2, I Need…I Need

2020by Heidi

I watched What About Bob? The very well-delivered line ‘I want, I want, I want…I need, I need, I need’ struck home with me.

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Navigating LIfe’s Difficulties:The Next Two Turns

2020by Heidi

My son has owned an independent trucking business for several years. He started it before GPS was commonly available. Knowing I struggle with navigation, he gave me a piece of […]

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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

Irish Serenity Prayer: Part 3 Personal Relationships

2020by Heidi

I have voluntarily given my liberty to God. I am not going to voluntarily give that liberty to anyone else ever again. I tried that and inevitably it led to […]

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Irish Serenity Prayer: Part 2 Battle for Liberty

2020by Heidi

Our homes have been battle grounds many an evening. ~ AA p 105 As I stated previously, besides being an alcoholic in recovery, I am a survivor of abuse. Therefore, […]

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Irish Serenity Prayer: Part 1 Battle for Liberty

2020by Heidi

When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not […]

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Spirituality, Step 3 Tips

Hitting The Panic Button

2020by Heidi

I then did what any self-respecting mom would do. I called the kid.

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Humor, Sober Living, Step 6 Application

Steps 2 & 3: Finding My AA Parachute

2020by Heidi

It’s like someone else has my remote!

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There’s No Business Like Show Business

2020by Heidi

We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show… Page 88 Why constantly? Because we alcoholics are going to regress when it comes to this principle. Not running […]

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