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Have you had a William James type spiritual experience
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I am a member and preparing a thesis for the CG Jung Institute on Carl Jung and AA. The title of the thesis is "The twelve steps as a journey of Jungian Individuation". Reading the archives in GSO in New York I came across multiple correspondence from members to Bill telling him of their s...
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ALANON 5TH STEP
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ADMITTED TO GOD TO MYSELF AND TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF MY WRONGSODAT 171To overcome my faults I must first know what they are, then I must admit to them and then finally with patient self correction diminish them even if I cannot set myself entirely free. My ShareAdmitted is a big wo...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Step 1 - ACOA - Common behavior characteristics
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Here are some common characteristics of Acoas ( adults who grew up in alcoholic or other dysfunctional homes)
1) We have feelings of low self-worth, and judge ourselves and others without mercy
2) We tend to isolate and feel uneasy around people we do not know, especially authority figures
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ACoA Step 1
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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. It is important to remember that powerlessness does not equal helplessness. What powerlessness means above is that we do not have the ability in and of ourselves to b...
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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 1
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Step 1 Admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable Step 1 Courage to Change Page 14 When I am able to admit that I am powerless over alcohol my life becomes more manageable. Today I will take a step to freedom and growth by surrendering. MY BRIEF SHARE Nagging,...
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STEP 8 ALANON 2-13
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IN ALANON WE BELIEVE LIFE IS FOR GROWTH-PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL STEP 8 MADE A LIST OF ALL PERSONS WE HAVE HARMED AND BECAME WILLING TO MAKE AMENDS TO THEM ALLone DAY AT A TIME IN ALANON PAGE 174THE ONLY ACTION THIS STEP CALLS FOR IS TO MAKE A LIST.I CAN DO THIS BY ALLOWING MY OPPRESIVE NAGGING G...
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Alanon Step 8
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STEP 8 MADE A LIST OF ALL PERSONS WE HAVE HARMED AND BECAME WILLING TO MAKE AMENDS TO THEM ALL Paths to Recovery page 87 One of the most important things in Step 8 is that it is for me. If others reap the benefit that is a bonus all I need to do in this step is to become willing!!! . If I make the list...
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ACoA Step 4
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4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Do this step. This one is where people procrastinate, make excuses, skip, or even quit the steps over. We don't want to own up to what we've done. Or we're afraid we're going to beat ourselves up over and over again. I took a long time to d...
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