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STEP 4 ALANON
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Made a Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory of OurselvesODAT PAGE 36Let me learn to understand myself first, that will occupy me so fully that I will have no time to analyze or criticize the problem drinker or anyone else.My ShareThis was a very upsetting Step when I first attempted to look at myse...
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Redoing the steps and finding a sponsor
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I have read the ACA red book and am wondering how to get a sponsor as there are no meetings in my area Birmingham UK reading the book and the laundary list , recognise myself as having many of these traits I have been in AA for ten years, been to counselling which helped and realise that going through the tw...
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Doing the steps AC big book way step one
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Powerless over the effect of alcoholism and becoming para alcoholic this is a new way to look at what happened to me and get out of the blame game. Trying to be invisible was one of the behaviours I used to keep safe. As an adult this trait as well as otheres has created an unmanageable life. I can see how I tr...
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Step 3 for ACoA
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3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God. Assuming our definition of God (a k a higher power) is in place, here you make a choice: to accept the help of the universe. Here is where you stop playing basketball one on five and acquire a team. There is help out t...
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STEP 3 ALANON
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STEP 3 Made a decision to Turn our will and Our Lives Over to the Care of a God, as we understood HimODAT Page 9If instead of trusting God , I trust only in my own intelligence, my own strength, I will not find my way to him.He has offered me the gift of faith, in accepting it I must put aside my own human will...
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ACOA yellow 12 step workbook
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Hi all new here. Am having some trouble with step one section three parts c and d in the yellow ACOA 12 step workbook. I can get maybe one or two for both sections so was wondering if these things are all meant for negative things or if they can be positive also. Don't have a sponsor yet, no transportation to...
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Step 2 for ACoA
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2: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Sometimes people who have problems with conventional religion or the concept of God have trouble with this step. What the Yellow Workbook has to say on the subject. A note to the atheist or agnositc: The ACA progam is fo...
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ALNON STEP 2
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Step2 Came to Believe That a Power greater Than ourselves Could Restore us to Sanity ODAT Page 33 Thank God I am to dependent on my own resources alone. Having tried to bring order and meaning into my life without God's help, I will now step aside and let Him take over MY SHARE A READING IN THE COUR...
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Step 1 for ACoA
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1. We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable. Welcome to the start of a wonderful journey. One of my favorite lines from a movie was spoken by Barbara Billingsley in the movie Airplane, when she said "Chump d...
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Step 1 Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol ~ that our lives had become unmanageable. ODAT PAGE 144 The First Step prepares us for a new life which we can achieve only by letting go of what we cannot control, and by undertaking one day at a time the monumental task of setting our world in orde...
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Step One
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I am powerless over Alcohol and my life has become unmanageable. I've waited and waited ,I've blamed my AH for his drinking and the misery that it is causing my family, all of that is true. I can not control any of that. I've been sitting at this step for so freaking long with the ability to admit it, but...
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ACoA Step 12
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12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others who still suffer, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Spread the news. It's not enough to just learn that things can be better for an adult child of an alcoholic. We need to let others...
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ALANON STEP 12
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Step 12 Having Had a Spiritual Awakening as a Result of These Steps, We Try to Carry This Message to Others and Practice These Principles in All Our Affairs. Page Paths to Recovery Page 119 It can be said the entire alanon program is summed up in the 12th Step. We see the results of our efforts, a Spiri...
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STEP 11 ALANON
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Step 11Sought through Prayers and Meditation to improve our Conscious Contact with God, As We Understood Him, and Praying only for Knowledge of His Will and the Power to carry it outPaths to recovery Page 110Each Steps offers new spiritual guidance. In Step 11 we can maintain our growth with n...
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ACoA Step 11
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11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understand God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry it out. This step is another one of those who have the word God in it which can trip people up. Again, substitute Higher Power fo...
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ALANON STEP 10
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Step 10 Continued to Take Personal Inventory and When We Were Wrong Promptly Admitted It Paths to Recovery Page 104 Continuing to take personal inventory keeps our slates clean and maintains our spiritual, emotional, and physical health to help deal with the rough times that occur in everyday...
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ACoA Step 10
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10. Continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. Now you're doing something different. With this step, you're curbing the damage, addressing hurts as they happen before they have a chance to alter you or others worse. My righteous indignation has receded si...
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ACoA Step 9
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9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. If you can make it up to someone, you should. If you examine your life, there are a ton of things you'd like someone to say they were sorry for. Just as much as you'd like to receive it, it is important...
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ALANON STEP 9
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Step 9 Made Direct Amends to such people whenever possible except,when do so would injure them or others Page 163 Courage to Change My Higher Power does not put any challenge before me that I am unable to face."The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is wh...
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ACoA Step 8
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8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. There is often a resistance to this step. There are people who, honestly, aren't deserving of amends even if they are owed. But as Malachy McCourt saidResentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other pers...
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