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JamesCT · JamesCT

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Long ago a female friend of mine was lamenting the actions of a male friend of mine regarding the relationship between the two of them. His actions were giving her mixed signals. On the one hand he had made it perfectly clear that t...

JamesCT · JamesCT

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. The concept of casting spells comes from the power of speaking words aloud. For many it, in fact, makes things real on a mental or philosophical level. And that's why these things need to be spoken. You're not hi...

dot · dot

Step Four - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 1. Am I willing to look honestly at myself? What stands in my way? 2. How am I tolerant? 3. Do I make friends easily? Why or why not? 4. In what ways am I resentful? Do I harbor grudges? Why? Love - Dot

hotrod · hotrod

STEP 5ADMITTED TO GOD, TO OURSELVESs AND TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF OUR WRONGSDoing the 4thstep was a spiritual experience I learned I was not as bad as I thought and that I was simply human Paths to recovery page 61My Share I was confused by the wording of this Step it did not say reco...

Lyne · Lyne

Step 3 Questions: I am able to turn my will over to God but somedays, like today, my enthusiasm diminishes. Too much stress, all stems from A, now my son is involved, and I just feel so low. I believe HP does care for me but for the past few months I have much suffering emotionally. This morning I turned it...

hotrod · hotrod

Alanon 12 Steps and 12 Traditions page 1 IN ALANON WE BELIEVE LIFE IS FOR GROWTH- Physical, Emotional and Spiritual STEP 2Came to Believe that a Power Greater than Ourselves could Restore us to SanityPath to Rec...

Lyne · Lyne

I am powerless over my spouse and her drinking, gambling, lying, and eating.

JamesCT · JamesCT

3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God. Assuming you've made any necessary adjustments to that word God (meaning to read that as Higher Power), the focus here is decision making. This for me was the hard part, committing to accepting help, not just fr...

hotrod · hotrod

Alanon 12 Steps and 12 Traditions page 1 IN ALANON WE BELIEVE LIFE IS FOR GROWTH -PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL Step 3Made a decision to turn my will and our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood HimPath to Recovery page 35 Working S...

coniolga · coniolga

We're going to marriage counseling through the church per my alcoholic. I start thinking maybe this will work after all. Then Monday I come home from work & he's with a hooker in my home. She actually going out the window. She's immaterial/insignificant in this. He had a beer sitting around &...

JamesCT · JamesCT

2: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The Higher Power. This is one of the great stumbling blocks for any of the 12 Step programs. But it doesn't have to be a wall. Here first is what the Yellow Workbook has to say on the subject, and then afterward is a private me...

JC · JC

I need the contact from others that understand...I need to work the steps. You know step one is not the hard step...it is easy to see I need help....I have tried with all my will power to fix everything....guess what, it did not work...and I am crazier for trying. I have remarried...things change but...

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...

coniolga · coniolga

1: We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable. I've been clean & sober in AA for 34 years. I still have problems with co-dependence issues. I was left alone on the streets when I was 13 years old & had some bad...

BOUNDnoMORE · BOUNDnoMORE

1: We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable. I have spent my entire life trying to control alcoholics, taking it personal, believing that there was something wrong with me. Not believing that it was them that ha...

hotrod · hotrod

12TH STEPHAVING HAD A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AS A RESULT OF THESE STEPS, WE TRIED TO CARRY THIS MESSAGE TO OTHERS AND TO PRACTICE THESE PRINCIPLES IN ALL OUR AFFARIS.COURAGE TO CHANGE PAGE 166SLOWLY AS I BEGAN TO RECOVER, I REALIZED WHAT A WONDERFUL GIFT THE AL ANON PROGRAM WAS. IT GAVE ME AN UNDERSTAND...

Lyne · Lyne

I want to start step 3. I found step 1 & 2 very OK but now I need help and will find a sponser. For all the years I have been in program I have never had a sponser. I guess I have felt I could do it without one, but no more! So I appreciate the help all of you are giving me, Lyne

schooner · schooner

Hi Guys/Gals Just wanted some ideas how you bring your sponsee' into STEP 3 I usually read with them and tell him to write on it. What feelings/thinks, etc,etc. Thanks GOD BLESS YOU ALL Schooner : -)

Lyne · Lyne

Today I feel really down and out and it is harder to hold onto the idea that my HP will take care of me. My A lives in denial. I'm not good at that. Blessing or a curse? But I do think one way to be successful in life is to be able to sit with my feelings. Some days are harder than others, Lyne

Lyne · Lyne

The last few days I feel almost in shock that I have accepted my A's behavior which has been especially bad the last 7 yrs. A couple wks ago, when she drank and drove, that somehow was a bottom for me. That behavior is unacceptable. She is allowed to destroy herself but no one else. What if she killed so...

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	ACoA Step 6 (Preview) 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Long ago a female friend of mine was lamenting the actions of a male friend of mine regarding the relationship between the two of them. His actions were giving her mixed signals. On the one hand he had made it perfectly clear that t...	JamesCT	2	1042	Jun 30, 2013 by KayCee
	ACoA Step 5 (Preview) 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. The concept of casting spells comes from the power of speaking words aloud. For many it, in fact, makes things real on a mental or philosophical level. And that's why these things need to be spoken. You're not hi...	JamesCT	2	1039	Jun 29, 2013 by KayCee
	Step Four - Questions (Preview) Step Four - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 1. Am I willing to look honestly at myself? What stands in my way? 2. How am I tolerant? 3. Do I make friends easily? Why or why not? 4. In what ways am I resentful? Do I harbor grudges? Why? Love - Dot	dot	11	2160	Jun 14, 2013 by KayCee
	Step 5 Alanon (Preview) STEP 5ADMITTED TO GOD, TO OURSELVESs AND TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF OUR WRONGSDoing the 4thstep was a spiritual experience I learned I was not as bad as I thought and that I was simply human Paths to recovery page 61My Share I was confused by the wording of this Step it did not say reco...	hotrod	2	3926	Jun 3, 2013 by hotrod
	step 3 questions (Preview) Step 3 Questions: I am able to turn my will over to God but somedays, like today, my enthusiasm diminishes. Too much stress, all stems from A, now my son is involved, and I just feel so low. I believe HP does care for me but for the past few months I have much suffering emotionally. This morning I turned it...	Lyne	2	1155	May 15, 2013 by Jerry F
	Step 2 Alanon (Preview) Alanon 12 Steps and 12 Traditions page 1 IN ALANON WE BELIEVE LIFE IS FOR GROWTH- Physical, Emotional and Spiritual STEP 2Came to Believe that a Power Greater than Ourselves could Restore us to SanityPath to Rec...	hotrod	9	1638	May 13, 2013 by hotrod
	step 1 (Preview) I am powerless over my spouse and her drinking, gambling, lying, and eating.	Lyne	15	1414	May 6, 2013 by KayCee
	ACoA Step 3 (Preview) 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God. Assuming you've made any necessary adjustments to that word God (meaning to read that as Higher Power), the focus here is decision making. This for me was the hard part, committing to accepting help, not just fr...	JamesCT	0	1066	May 5, 2013 by JamesCT
	STEP 3 ALANON (Preview) Alanon 12 Steps and 12 Traditions page 1 IN ALANON WE BELIEVE LIFE IS FOR GROWTH -PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL Step 3Made a decision to turn my will and our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood HimPath to Recovery page 35 Working S...	hotrod	0	1386	May 5, 2013 by hotrod
	Self Loathing (Preview) We're going to marriage counseling through the church per my alcoholic. I start thinking maybe this will work after all. Then Monday I come home from work & he's with a hooker in my home. She actually going out the window. She's immaterial/insignificant in this. He had a beer sitting around &...	coniolga	3	1347	Apr 29, 2013 by hotrod
	ACoA Step 2 (Preview) 2: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The Higher Power. This is one of the great stumbling blocks for any of the 12 Step programs. But it doesn't have to be a wall. Here first is what the Yellow Workbook has to say on the subject, and then afterward is a private me...	JamesCT	2	1300	Apr 23, 2013 by DavidG
	Step 1 I am powerless over others..my life is unmanagable. I have been gone from alnon for a while..I had to come back (Preview) I need the contact from others that understand...I need to work the steps. You know step one is not the hard step...it is easy to see I need help....I have tried with all my will power to fix everything....guess what, it did not work...and I am crazier for trying. I have remarried...things change but...	JC	7	1531	Apr 6, 2013 by Lyne
	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	13325	Apr 5, 2013 by hotrod
	Step 1 ACA (Preview) 1: We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable. I've been clean & sober in AA for 34 years. I still have problems with co-dependence issues. I was left alone on the streets when I was 13 years old & had some bad...	coniolga	6	1717	Mar 29, 2013 by Davie
	STEP ONE ACA (Preview) 1: We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable. I have spent my entire life trying to control alcoholics, taking it personal, believing that there was something wrong with me. Not believing that it was them that ha...	BOUNDnoMORE	3	1155	Mar 29, 2013 by lin34
	STEP 12 ALANON (Preview) *12TH STEP*HAVING HAD A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AS A RESULT OF THESE STEPS, WE TRIED TO CARRY THIS MESSAGE TO OTHERS AND TO PRACTICE THESE PRINCIPLES IN ALL OUR AFFARIS.COURAGE TO CHANGE PAGE 166SLOWLY AS I BEGAN TO RECOVER, I REALIZED WHAT A WONDERFUL GIFT THE AL ANON PROGRAM WAS. IT GAVE ME AN UNDERSTAND...	hotrod	2	1019	Mar 28, 2013 by hotrod
	step 3 (Preview) I want to start step 3. I found step 1 & 2 very OK but now I need help and will find a sponser. For all the years I have been in program I have never had a sponser. I guess I have felt I could do it without one, but no more! So I appreciate the help all of you are giving me, Lyne	Lyne	1	887	Mar 28, 2013 by hotrod
	What's the best way to start a sponsee on step 3 (Preview) Hi Guys/Gals Just wanted some ideas how you bring your sponsee' into STEP 3 I usually read with them and tell him to write on it. What feelings/thinks, etc,etc. Thanks GOD BLESS YOU ALL Schooner : -)	schooner	2	1536	Mar 22, 2013 by schooner
	step 2 (Preview) Today I feel really down and out and it is harder to hold onto the idea that my HP will take care of me. My A lives in denial. I'm not good at that. Blessing or a curse? But I do think one way to be successful in life is to be able to sit with my feelings. Some days are harder than others, Lyne	Lyne	1	877	Mar 22, 2013 by hotrod
	step 2 (Preview) The last few days I feel almost in shock that I have accepted my A's behavior which has been especially bad the last 7 yrs. A couple wks ago, when she drank and drove, that somehow was a bottom for me. That behavior is unacceptable. She is allowed to destroy herself but no one else. What if she killed so...	Lyne	0	709	Mar 21, 2013 by Lyne
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