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Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Step 10 AAContinued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.This thought brings us to Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along. We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up th...

hotrod · hotrod

11Step Eleven Sought through Prayers and Mediation to Improve our Conscious Contact with God, As We UNDERSTOOD HIM, Praying Only for the Knowledge of His Will for Us and the Power to Carry That Out One Day at a Time in Alanon Page 177It is in Step 11 That I find the actively spiritual prescription for t...

JamesCT · JamesCT

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. The making of amends proved a tricky affair for me, in that I did not anticipate some of the injury that resulted. I tired to make amends to my ex-girlfriend by giving her back something she had asked...

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. I have had no idea what to do about many things in my life. My FOO and the mercurial kids I went to school made my understan...

hotrod · hotrod

Alanon Step 2Came to Believe that a Power Greater Than Ourselves Could Restore Us to Sanity Reading from One Day at a Time in Alanon Page 145 The First Step tells me I am powerless over alcohol, which is admittedly stronger than I am,since there is no way for me to keep the drinker away from the bottle;....

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Step 11 AASought 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. Our conscious contact with God began with step 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Go...

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Step 9 AAStep 9 is vital, as all of the steps, to our recovery. The Big Book devotes 8 pages mainly to step and 9. This is the point in our recovery where spiritual growth begins to flourish. The proceeding 8 steps were laying the groundwork for our spiritual program/growth. We came to believe, we t...

drdoug · drdoug

Our home group is struggling to get a good understanding of speaker qualifications. ANy ideas? i.e. completed all 12 steps, one year sobriety, sponsor permission required; have been suggested. TY

hotrod · hotrod

Step 9Made Direct Amends to Such People Wherever Possible EXCEPT When to do so Would Injure Them or Others. Courage to Change Page 356 In a meeting I heard someone say of Step 8 and Step9 : I have made a list of those I have harmed and I put myself at the top of the list. This had not occurred to me. Some...

hotrod · hotrod

STEP 8MADE A LIST OF ALL WE HAD HARMED AND BECAME WILLING TO MAKE AMMENDS TO THEM ALL Quote from Courage to Change Page 101 With this Step we sort out our part, taking responsibility for our actions and also releasing ourselves ---from the burden of falsely held responsibilities Reading from T...

hotrod · hotrod

ADMITTED TO GOD ,TO OURSELVES AND ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF OUR WRONGSCOURAGE TO CHANGEPAGE 311What is the exact nature of my wrongs?Is it the embarrassing moment, the words spoken in anger, the dishonesty?For me, the exact nature of my wrongs is the unspoken, self defeating assumpt...

hotrod · hotrod

Step 7 "Humbly Asked Him to Remove Our Short Comings" COURAGE TO CHANGE PAGE 142 When I take the Seventh Step (Humbly asked Him to Remove Our Short Comings), I calmlyask for help; I do not beg or demand; I neither grovel nor puff myself up.I needn't demean myself and I have no one to impres...

JamesCT · JamesCT

10. Continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. This step alters your day to day existence. This step is a direct commitment to change. You will now do something that you did not previously you. You will live with self-reflection and humility. Basically,...

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Step 6 AA First I would like to apologize for the lateness of this step. I have been sick. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free ma...

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Step 5 AAAdmitted 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...

JamesCT · JamesCT

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. Much like with Step 4, there is fear and procrastination with this step. For me, beyond not wanting to admit the harms I caused, I didn't want to open myself to interacting with these people again, because of shame a...

John · John

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. bb. pg 30 We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashe...

GammyRose · GammyRose

"What I do not admit in Step One is just as important as what I do admit. I do not admit that I am a failure. I may feel like a failure,but I've learned in this program that feelings aren't facts. If I stop to reflect, I realize that I'm not diminished when I admit my powerlessness over alcohol. In fac...

JamesCT · JamesCT

7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. This one is short, but there is a lot in it. Humbly We've lost the hubris that we think we're all that and a bag of chips. We know we need help to change, that change coming entirely as a force of our will isn't going to happen. asked Not demanded or insisted. ...

Dan B 76 · Dan B 76

Step 8 AA Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery. But if a willing start is m...

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	Tenth Step AA (Preview) Step 10 AAContinued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.This thought brings us to Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along. We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up th...	Dan B 76	4	2938	May 5, 2012 by runguy
	STEP 11 ALANON (Preview) 11Step Eleven Sought through Prayers and Mediation to Improve our Conscious Contact with God, As We UNDERSTOOD HIM, Praying Only for the Knowledge of His Will for Us and the Power to Carry That Out One Day at a Time in Alanon Page 177It is in Step 11 That I find the actively spiritual prescription for t...	hotrod	14	10569	May 3, 2012 by hotrod
	Step 9 - Adult Children of Alcoholics (Preview) 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. The making of amends proved a tricky affair for me, in that I did not anticipate some of the injury that resulted. I tired to make amends to my ex-girlfriend by giving her back something she had asked...	JamesCT	8	1725	May 3, 2012 by flopadopilus
	Step 11 - Adult Children of Alcoholics (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. I have had no idea what to do about many things in my life. My FOO and the mercurial kids I went to school made my understan...	JamesCT	5	1153	May 2, 2012 by LindaO
	Step 2 Alanon Family Groups (Preview) Alanon Step 2Came to Believe that a Power Greater Than Ourselves Could Restore Us to Sanity Reading from One Day at a Time in Alanon Page 145 The First Step tells me I am powerless over alcohol, which is admittedly stronger than I am,since there is no way for me to keep the drinker away from the bottle;....	hotrod	14	5408	Apr 25, 2012 by Peachy219
	Step 11 AA (Preview) *Step 11 AASought 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.** Our conscious contact with God began with step 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Go...	Dan B 76	3	1721	Apr 23, 2012 by Fyne Spirit
	Step Nine AA (Preview) Step 9 AAStep 9 is vital, as all of the steps, to our recovery. The Big Book devotes 8 pages mainly to step and 9. This is the point in our recovery where spiritual growth begins to flourish. The proceeding 8 steps were laying the groundwork for our spiritual program/growth. We came to believe, we t...	Dan B 76	3	1327	Apr 10, 2012 by Wolfie55
	Speaker Qualifications (Preview) Our home group is struggling to get a good understanding of speaker qualifications. ANy ideas? i.e. completed all 12 steps, one year sobriety, sponsor permission required; have been suggested. TY	drdoug	6	2005	Apr 10, 2012 by Wolfie55
	STEP 9 ALANON (Preview) Step 9Made Direct Amends to Such People Wherever Possible EXCEPT When to do so Would Injure Them or Others. Courage to Change Page 356 In a meeting I heard someone say of Step 8 and Step9 : I have made a list of those I have harmed and I put myself at the top of the list. This had not occurred to me. Some...	hotrod	3	1825	Apr 9, 2012 by hotrod
	Step 8 Alanon (Preview) STEP 8MADE A LIST OF ALL WE HAD HARMED AND BECAME WILLING TO MAKE AMMENDS TO THEM ALL Quote from Courage to Change Page 101 With this Step we sort out our part, taking responsibility for our actions and also releasing ourselves ---from the burden of falsely held responsibilities Reading from T...	hotrod	9	12683	Apr 9, 2012 by Wolfie55
	STEP 5 ALANON (Preview) ADMITTED TO GOD ,TO OURSELVES AND ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF OUR WRONGSCOURAGE TO CHANGEPAGE 311What is the exact nature of my wrongs?Is it the embarrassing moment, the words spoken in anger, the dishonesty?For me, the exact nature of my wrongs is the unspoken, self defeating assumpt...	hotrod	8	11293	Apr 9, 2012 by hotrod
	Alanon 7th Step (Preview) Step 7 "Humbly Asked Him to Remove Our Short Comings" COURAGE TO CHANGE PAGE 142 When I take the Seventh Step (Humbly asked Him to Remove Our Short Comings), I calmlyask for help; I do not beg or demand; I neither grovel nor puff myself up.I needn't demean myself and I have no one to impres...	hotrod	8	6747	Apr 9, 2012 by hotrod
	Step 10 - Adult Children of Alcoholics (Preview) 10. Continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. This step alters your day to day existence. This step is a direct commitment to change. You will now do something that you did not previously you. You will live with self-reflection and humility. Basically,...	JamesCT	5	1187	Apr 6, 2012 by bmare38
	Step six AA (Preview) Step 6 AA First I would like to apologize for the lateness of this step. I have been sick. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free ma...	Dan B 76	3	1705	Mar 20, 2012 by Isurrender
	Step 5 AA (Preview) Step 5 AAAdmitted 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	7	6652	Mar 19, 2012 by Isurrender
	Step 8 - Adult Children of Alcoholics (Preview) 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. Much like with Step 4, there is fear and procrastination with this step. For me, beyond not wanting to admit the harms I caused, I didn't want to open myself to interacting with these people again, because of shame a...	JamesCT	16	1473	Mar 12, 2012 by LindaO
	Step 1 - Alcoholics Anonymous (Preview) 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. bb. pg 30 We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashe...	John	14	9497	Mar 10, 2012 by Mr_David
	Step one share... (Preview) "What I do not admit in Step One is just as important as what I do admit. I do not admit that I am a failure. I may feel like a failure,but I've learned in this program that feelings aren't facts. If I stop to reflect, I realize that I'm not diminished when I admit my powerlessness over alcohol. In fac...	GammyRose	1	2201	Mar 9, 2012 by kkmclaughlin
	Step 7 - Adult Children of Alcoholics (Preview) 7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. This one is short, but there is a lot in it. Humbly We've lost the hubris that we think we're all that and a bag of chips. We know we need help to change, that change coming entirely as a force of our will isn't going to happen. asked Not demanded or insisted. ...	JamesCT	6	2259	Mar 6, 2012 by JamesCT
	Step 8 AA (Preview) Step 8 AA Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery. But if a willing start is m...	Dan B 76	1	1859	Mar 5, 2012 by Fyne Spirit
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