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CarolinaLady · CarolinaLady

My question is what is next when you are chasing sobriety and believe in the AA way, and your spouse refuses to acknowledge that your addiction is anything but a choice you made!?

JamesCT · JamesCT

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. There is a saying by Samuel Butler:He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. This is relevant to this step because until you're totally ready for your Higher Power to remove the defects of character, then any...

hotrod · hotrod

IN ALANON WE BELIEVE LIFE IS FOR GROWTH-PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL STEP 6were ENTIRELY READY TO HAVE GOD REMOVE ALL THESE DEFECTS OF CHARACTER I will pray for self fulfillment and through conscious effort makes some headway of being at peace with myself, WHICH is my ultimate goal embrac...

JamesCT · JamesCT

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Growing up in my FOO it was all about the secrets. Don't let people know your business, what you have, what you're doing. But toxic secrets eroded self-confidence and made me distrust my own inner voice. The...

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Step 5 AA Admitted to God, to ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. HAVING MADE our personal inventory, what shall we do about it? We have been trying to get a new attitude, a new relationship with our Creator, and to discover the obstacles in our path. We have admitted certai...

hotrod · hotrod

EXPERIENCE "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." -- Aldous Huxley STEP 5 ADMITTED TO GOD TO OURSELVES AND TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF OUR WRONGS ONE DAY AT A Tme IN ALANON PAGE 171AS I UNDERSTAND THE DIFICULT TASK OF FAC...

Magdalena760 · Magdalena760

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JamesCT · JamesCT

4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. This one always seems to be the show stopper. There are many reasons. For one, we might not want to do this step just because of how many things we'd have to write down we might end up with writer's cramp. More seriously, for us we fear it wi...

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Fourth Step of Alcoholics Anonymous Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. I have written 3 fourth steps the first was in treatment and I was not very aware of my defects at the time. I looked at the guide given to me and tried to follow it. I was to grandiose, one of the items listed...

hotrod · hotrod

Alanon 12 Steps and 12 Traditions page 1 IN ALANON WE BELIEVE LIFE IS FOR GROWTH-PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL STEP 4MADE A SEARCHING AND FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY OF OURSELVES ONE DAY AT A TIME IN ALANON let me learn to understand myself first; that will occupy myself so fully that I will ha...

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Step 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?" That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I...

JamesCT · JamesCT

3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God. First, please don't get hung up on the word God here. Just substitute Higher Power as discussed in Step 2 The key thing for me was to decide I wanted help. As Barbara Billingsley said in the movie Airplane "Ch...

hotrod · hotrod

By working the Steps for ourselves we find we have problems of our OWN and by practicing the steps we gain courage and wisdom and leave our old ways behind STEP 3MADE A decision TO TURN OUR WILL AND OUR LIVES OVER TO THE CARE OF GOD, AS WE UNDERSTOOD HIM STEP 3 example Three frogs sat on a lily pad. One made a...

JamesCT · JamesCT

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...

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The process for me as I began my walk in AA was I came, then I came to and finally I came to believe. I came to AA I wasnt ready for anything else at that point I had accepted that I was an alcoholic. That to me was a good start. Afte...

DaniHines · DaniHines

hotrod · hotrod

SECOND STEP STORY An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves." "One is evil - he is anger, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, lies, infe...

Snow White · Snow White

Ugh! I dislike typing in all caps because it feels like I am yelling, oh well I have attempted to control the font settings and plan to move on as I have found myself to be powerless over the font settings. I started AlA-non several months ago in order to bring my chaotic life back under control. I need to a...

JamesCT · JamesCT

From the ACA Steps: 1: We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable. It sounds so simple, but it's hard. I was at first unaware of my behaviors at all, other than to notice that things kept going wrong. It's like that o...

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Step 1 Alcoholics Anonymous 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable. I believe that I was an alcoholic/addict from the first time I was able to drink in the way I wanted. I was thirteen and there was a party at my house, I was mixing drinks and helping myself t...

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	Spouse who doesn't "believe" the disease (Preview) My question is what is next when you are chasing sobriety and believe in the AA way, and your spouse refuses to acknowledge that your addiction is anything but a choice you made!?	CarolinaLady	1	820	Jan 1, 2013 by hotrod
	Adult Children of Alcoholics: Step 6 (Preview) 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. There is a saying by Samuel Butler:He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. This is relevant to this step because until you're totally ready for your Higher Power to remove the defects of character, then any...	JamesCT	2	811	Jan 3, 2013 by DavidG
	Step 6 Alanon (Preview) IN ALANON WE BELIEVE LIFE IS FOR GROWTH-PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL STEP 6were ENTIRELY READY TO HAVE GOD REMOVE ALL THESE DEFECTS OF CHARACTER *I will pray for self fulfillment and through conscious effort makes some headway of being at peace with myself, WHICH is my ultimate goal embrac...*	hotrod	12	11322	Mar 7, 2013 by hotrod
	Adult Children of Alcoholics: Step 5 (Preview) 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Growing up in my FOO it was all about the secrets. Don't let people know your business, what you have, what you're doing. But toxic secrets eroded self-confidence and made me distrust my own inner voice. The...	JamesCT	4	1001	Feb 5, 2013 by JamesCT
	Step 5 Alcoholics Anonymous (Preview) Step 5 AA Admitted to God, to ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. HAVING MADE our personal inventory, what shall we do about it? We have been trying to get a new attitude, a new relationship with our Creator, and to discover the obstacles in our path. We have admitted certai...	Dan B 76	1	1163	Dec 30, 2012 by Liddie
	ALANON STEP 5 (Preview) EXPERIENCE "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." -- Aldous Huxley *STEP 5* *ADMITTED TO GOD TO OURSELVES AND TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF OUR WRONGS* *ONE DAY AT A Tme IN ALANON PAGE 171*AS I UNDERSTAND THE DIFICULT TASK OF FAC...	hotrod	4	1045	Mar 7, 2013 by hotrod
	Deleted Post (Preview) -- Edited by Magdalena760 on Saturday 8th of December 2012 02:56:00 PM	Magdalena760	0	622	Dec 8, 2012 by Magdalena760
	Adult Children of Alcoholics: Step 4 (Preview) 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. This one always seems to be the show stopper. There are many reasons. For one, we might not want to do this step just because of how many things we'd have to write down we might end up with writer's cramp. More seriously, for us we fear it wi...	JamesCT	4	1410	Dec 25, 2012 by flopadopilus
	Fourth Step of Alcoholics Anonymous (Preview) Fourth Step of Alcoholics Anonymous Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. I have written 3 fourth steps the first was in treatment and I was not very aware of my defects at the time. I looked at the guide given to me and tried to follow it. I was to grandiose, one of the items listed...	Dan B 76	0	1831	Dec 3, 2012 by Dan B 76
	4 th Step ALANON (Preview) Alanon 12 Steps and 12 Traditions page 1 IN ALANON WE BELIEVE LIFE IS FOR GROWTH-PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL *STEP 4MADE A SEARCHING AND FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY OF OURSELVES* ONE DAY AT A TIME IN ALANON let me learn to understand myself first; that will occupy myself so fully that I will ha...**	hotrod	4	3622	Mar 7, 2013 by hotrod
	Step Three AA (Preview) Step 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?" That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I...	Dan B 76	0	892	Nov 22, 2012 by Dan B 76
	Adult Children of Alcoholics: Step 3 (Preview) 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God. First, please don't get hung up on the word God here. Just substitute Higher Power as discussed in Step 2 The key thing for me was to decide I wanted help. As Barbara Billingsley said in the movie Airplane "Ch...	JamesCT	3	969	Jan 4, 2013 by poppy18
	STEP 3 ALANON (Preview) By working the Steps for ourselves we find we have problems of our OWN and by practicing the steps we gain courage and wisdom and leave our old ways behind *STEP 3MADE A decision TO TURN OUR WILL AND OUR LIVES OVER TO THE CARE OF GOD, AS WE UNDERSTOOD HIM STEP 3 example* Three frogs sat on a lily pad. One made a...	hotrod	17	10271	Apr 11, 2025 by Vitalina
	Adult Children of Alcoholics: Step 2 (Preview) 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...	JamesCT	6	1203	Feb 27, 2013 by JamesCT
	Step 2 Alcoholics Anonymous (Preview) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The process for me as I began my walk in AA was I came, then I came to and finally I came to believe. I came to AA I wasnt ready for anything else at that point I had accepted that I was an alcoholic. That to me was a good start. Afte...	Dan B 76	0	1220	Nov 5, 2012 by Dan B 76
	im on step 3 wondering about some advice on how exactly the action part works im a very spiritial person already but i w (Preview)	DaniHines	1	792	Nov 6, 2012 by JamesCT
	STEP 2 ALANON (Preview) SECOND STEP STORY An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves." "One is evil - he is anger, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, lies, infe...	hotrod	17	12950	Apr 5, 2013 by hotrod
	Step 1 (Preview) Ugh! I dislike typing in all caps because it feels like I am yelling, oh well I have attempted to control the font settings and plan to move on as I have found myself to be powerless over the font settings. I started AlA-non several months ago in order to bring my chaotic life back under control. I need to a...	Snow White	1	929	Oct 30, 2012 by hotrod
	Adult Children of Alcoholics: Step 1 (Preview) From the ACA Steps: 1: We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable. It sounds so simple, but it's hard. I was at first unaware of my behaviors at all, other than to notice that things kept going wrong. It's like that o...	JamesCT	14	9765	Feb 27, 2013 by lostinoz
	Step 1 Alcoholics Anonymous (Preview) Step 1 Alcoholics Anonymous 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable. I believe that I was an alcoholic/addict from the first time I was able to drink in the way I wanted. I was thirteen and there was a party at my house, I was mixing drinks and helping myself t...	Dan B 76	5	5699	Oct 27, 2012 by suzulu
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