Step Work

Haymond9007 · Haymond9007

Hello! First, I want to apologize if I'm on the incorrect forum today. I'm new to this forum and I'm wanting to share my story and seek advice. I've been in and out of Alanon activity for about two years. I have read a lot of material and been to meetings. I have recently felt stronger about myself and not le...

hotrod · hotrod

Step 12HAVING HAD A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AS A RESULT OF THESE STEPS WE TRIED TO CARRY THIS MESSAGE TO OTHERS AND TO PRACTICE THIESE PRINCIPLES IN ALL OUR AFFAIRSODAT PAGE 348AT no point in my life will I achieve perfection; there will never be a time in my life when I will not need the joy and satisfaction o...

berniek · berniek

Hello All, I need some advice from those of you have already completed Step 4. I am just beginning it but I find I am writing down "so many" people whom I am resentful with. I am using the example from the Big Book (p. 65). I am having trouble with writing down the entries for "Affect My&quo...

jojo167 · jojo167

Hello my name is JOJO i am chairing a meeting this week on the 4th step. Although i am still relatively new<1 year> i have chaired 3 meetings. I still find it rather intimidating to chair but i do enjoy it!! i always learn something new about myself, mostly from listening to others sharing!!...

davette · davette

I was involved in 2 different groups in key west which both broke up while working step 4. Im now in northwest florida. I started a new group because the closest was 60 miles away. we are finishing our step one work and I wish i knew the right way to finalize step one.

JamesCT · JamesCT

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. If you've been working the steps along with these postings, congratulations. However, you might be saying to yourself &quo...

MsAL · MsAL

I have tried several times to locate the step the site is working on but every time I go to the post the date is over a month old. Step 1 that I just found started 12 days ago. One part of the site says you work on the step for 2 weeks another says 1 week. Is there a simple way to understand and follow this? Please h...

hotrod · hotrod

Step 11Sought through PRAYER AND MEDITATION TO IMPROVE OUR CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH GOD,as we understood HIM, PRAYING ONLY FOR KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL FOR US AND THE POWER TO CARRY THAT OUT.ODAT Reading: God is present in all His creatures, but all are not equally aware of His presence.MY SHAREI belie...

Desirae · Desirae

What led me to believe in a power greater than myself? One day, I asked a group to pray for me that I would find strength while I was going through a tough situation. There was an elder who then asked me, Why do you pray for strength? I replied, I just need the mental capacity to get through this. I know it w...

hotrod · hotrod

Learn How The Twelve Steps Work.Participate in your own recovery as well as the recovery of others, by being active on this board as we go through the 12 Steps of recovery togethe Step 6 questionswere entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of CharacterODAT PAGE 172 God make me entirely...

hotrod · hotrod

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...

coniolga · coniolga

Step 2 is the hardest one. Once I got this down in AA & believed it with my heart instead of my head it seemed so much easier. I guess since I've been clean & sober for 34 years it must've "took." I still believe that God can restore me to sanity relative to everything else in my life excep...

hotrod · hotrod

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...

JamesCT · JamesCT

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...

JamesCT · JamesCT

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. As always, replace God with Higher Power if the word bothers you. The purpose of this step is to attune you to your great...

hotrod · hotrod

STEP 9MADE DIRECT AMENDS TO SUCH PEOPLE WHERE EVER POSSIBLE EXCEPT WHEN TO DO SO WOULD INJURE THEM OR OTHERSOdat PAGE 175LOVE AND PATIENCE CAN MAKE AMPLE AMENDS FOR PAST INJURIES THEY RSTORE US TO SANITY AND OUR LIVES TO SERENITYMY SHAREIn this Step I again had to take time and define what exactly did a...

hotrod · hotrod

STEP 10CONTINUE TO TAKE PERSONEL INVENTORY AND WHEN WE Were WRONG PROMPTLY ADMITTED ITODAT PAGE 213 A DAILY REVIEW OF MY PROGRESS IS AN ENCOURAGING EXERCISE FOR IT SHOWS ME THAT I AM GRADUALLY LEARNING TO LIVE WITH POISE AND SERENITYMy Share This is my favorite Step and although I was told that the...

JamesCT · JamesCT

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. We don't just have habits. We fall in love with them or define ourselves by them. If I have to stop pleasing people, stop putting others first, stop going along to get along, then I won't be myself. So even though we find through w...

JamesCT · JamesCT

10. Continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.In·san·it·y 1. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result -- Old joke In computer programming, while in a logic loop, a way to exit the loop is through a break statement, where there i...

JamesCT · JamesCT

4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Please do this step. I have seen people procrastinate on this step, make excuses, skip, or even quit working the steps over it. I took a long time to do this step myself because I was afraid I'd start beating myself up and would never stop. H...

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	New and need help!! (Preview) Hello! First, I want to apologize if I'm on the incorrect forum today. I'm new to this forum and I'm wanting to share my story and seek advice. I've been in and out of Alanon activity for about two years. I have read a lot of material and been to meetings. I have recently felt stronger about myself and not le...	Haymond9007	6	1323	May 29, 2014 by hotrod
	Step 12 Alanon (Preview) Step 12HAVING HAD A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AS A RESULT OF THESE STEPS WE TRIED TO CARRY THIS MESSAGE TO OTHERS AND TO PRACTICE THIESE PRINCIPLES IN ALL OUR AFFAIRSODAT PAGE 348AT no point in my life will I achieve perfection; there will never be a time in my life when I will not need the joy and satisfaction o...	hotrod	6	1302	May 20, 2014 by hotrod
	Step 4 (Preview) Hello All, I need some advice from those of you have already completed Step 4. I am just beginning it but I find I am writing down "so many" people whom I am resentful with. I am using the example from the Big Book (p. 65). I am having trouble with writing down the entries for "Affect My&quo...	berniek	2	1598	Apr 21, 2014 by davette
	step 4 (Preview) Hello my name is JOJO i am chairing a meeting this week on the 4th step. Although i am still relatively new<1 year> i have chaired 3 meetings. I still find it rather intimidating to chair but i do enjoy it!! i always learn something new about myself, mostly from listening to others sharing!!...	jojo167	2	911	Apr 21, 2014 by davette
	sharing experience strength and hope as we lead groups through the steps. (Preview) I was involved in 2 different groups in key west which both broke up while working step 4. Im now in northwest florida. I started a new group because the closest was 60 miles away. we are finishing our step one work and I wish i knew the right way to finalize step one.	davette	7	889	Apr 14, 2014 by davette
	Step 12 for ACoA (Preview) 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. If you've been working the steps along with these postings, congratulations. However, you might be saying to yourself &quo...	JamesCT	1	918	Apr 1, 2014 by Sabin
	How does this site work? (Preview) I have tried several times to locate the step the site is working on but every time I go to the post the date is over a month old. Step 1 that I just found started 12 days ago. One part of the site says you work on the step for 2 weeks another says 1 week. Is there a simple way to understand and follow this? Please h...	MsAL	4	930	Mar 30, 2014 by hotrod
	ALANON STEP 11 (Preview) Step 11Sought through PRAYER AND MEDITATION TO IMPROVE OUR CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH GOD,as we understood HIM, PRAYING ONLY FOR KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL FOR US AND THE POWER TO CARRY THAT OUT.ODAT Reading: God is present in all His creatures, but all are not equally aware of His presence.MY SHAREI belie...	hotrod	13	3681	Mar 30, 2014 by hotrod
	My Step 2 Answers (Preview) What led me to believe in a power greater than myself? One day, I asked a group to pray for me that I would find strength while I was going through a tough situation. There was an elder who then asked me, Why do you pray for strength? I replied, I just need the mental capacity to get through this. I know it w...	Desirae	1	1148	Mar 25, 2014 by hotrod
	Alanon Step 6 (Preview) Learn How The Twelve Steps Work.Participate in your own recovery as well as the recovery of others, by being active on this board as we go through the 12 Steps of recovery togethe *Step 6 questionswere entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of CharacterODAT PAGE 172* *God make me entirely...*	hotrod	12	1509	Mar 23, 2014 by hotrod
	ALNON STEP 2 (Preview) 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...	hotrod	14	2548	Mar 11, 2014 by Kitsch
	Came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity. (Preview) Step 2 is the hardest one. Once I got this down in AA & believed it with my heart instead of my head it seemed so much easier. I guess since I've been clean & sober for 34 years it must've "took." I still believe that God can restore me to sanity relative to everything else in my life excep...	coniolga	6	3123	Feb 22, 2014 by coniolga
	STEP 4 ALANON (Preview) 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...	hotrod	14	5018	Feb 19, 2014 by hotrod
	Step 1 for ACoA (Preview) 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...	JamesCT	15	1735	Feb 8, 2014 by alittlecloser
	Step 11 for ACoA (Preview) 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. As always, replace God with Higher Power if the word bothers you. The purpose of this step is to attune you to your great...	JamesCT	2	826	Feb 6, 2014 by HoosierCat
	Step 9 alanon (Preview) *STEP 9MADE DIRECT AMENDS TO SUCH PEOPLE WHERE EVER POSSIBLE EXCEPT WHEN TO DO SO WOULD INJURE THEM OR OTHERSOdat PAGE 175LOVE AND PATIENCE CAN MAKE AMPLE AMENDS FOR PAST INJURIES THEY RSTORE US TO SANITY AND OUR LIVES TO SERENITY*MY SHAREIn this Step I again had to take time and define what exactly did a...	hotrod	11	4643	Jan 31, 2014 by hotrod
	ALANON STEP 10 (Preview) STEP 10CONTINUE TO TAKE PERSONEL INVENTORY AND WHEN WE Were WRONG PROMPTLY ADMITTED ITODAT PAGE 213 A DAILY REVIEW OF MY PROGRESS IS AN ENCOURAGING EXERCISE FOR IT SHOWS ME THAT I AM GRADUALLY LEARNING TO LIVE WITH POISE AND SERENITYMy Share This is my favorite Step and although I was told that the...	hotrod	4	1006	Jan 30, 2014 by hotrod
	Step 6 for ACoA (Preview) 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. We don't just have habits. We fall in love with them or define ourselves by them. If I have to stop pleasing people, stop putting others first, stop going along to get along, then I won't be myself. So even though we find through w...	JamesCT	2	973	Jan 26, 2014 by Sabin
	Step 10 for ACoA (Preview) 10. Continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.In·san·it·y 1. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result -- Old joke In computer programming, while in a logic loop, a way to exit the loop is through a break statement, where there i...	JamesCT	2	878	Jan 26, 2014 by Sabin
	Step 4 for ACoA (Preview) 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Please do this step. I have seen people procrastinate on this step, make excuses, skip, or even quit working the steps over it. I took a long time to do this step myself because I was afraid I'd start beating myself up and would never stop. H...	JamesCT	4	2147	Jan 24, 2014 by JamesCT
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Learn how the 12 Steps work. Participate in your own recovery as well as the recovery of others, by being active on this board as we go through the 12 Steps of recovery together! We discuss each of the Twelve Steps In the order they are written, one step at a time, every two weeks.