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share on Step 4 for New Year
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I think it is very fitting that we are doing Step 4 as we come into the New Year,,, as many people make New Year's resolutions... We can do this with an aim to follow thru on this inventory with our following Steps in this New Year.
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Step 4 - AA
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From the AA "12 Steps and 12 Traditions" book:
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves"
"Creation gave us instincts for a purpose. Without them we wouldn't be complete human beings... So these desires - for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for comp...
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share on holidays
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Here we go,,, tomorrow is Christmas Eve,,, Christmas week, then New Year's Eve.
How about some tips on what program things we do to make the best of the holidays in recovery?
I try to remember to "take it easy" and to watch for H.A.L.T - being Hungry, Angry, Lonely and/or Tired... and t...
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Step 1 - ACoA
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from "The 12 Steps for Adult Children"
"The ideas presented in Step 1 are overwhelming to most of us until we begin to see our lives as they really are. It is threatening to imagine that we could be powerless; that our lives could be unmanageable. Our life experiences remind us that our behavio...
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Step One Share
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When I came to the rooms of al-anon I wanted them to tell me how to help the a stay sober - he had gone to AA.
What a shock when they told me his sobriety was not my business - that my business was taking care of me. I didn't want to hear this - I had spent 30 years trying to make the a happy and felt there must be s...
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Tradition 3 - AA
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From the "12 Step and 12 Tradition" book:
"The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking"
"... AA is really saying to every serious drinker, 'You are an AA member if you say so. You can declare yourself in; nobody can keep you out. No matter who you are, no matter how low yo...
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Step Work
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I am new to this board and have only been in Al-Anon a short time. Is there a schedule for the step studies?
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Step 3 - AA
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From the "12 Step and 12 Tradition" book:
"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him"
"Practicing Step 3 is like the opening of a door which to all appearance is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door...
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Step 2 - ACoA
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From "The 12 Steps for Adult Children"
"We prepare for Step 2 by acknowledging that we don't know everything about our Higher Power. Many of us have a distorted view of God. Although we are not quick to admit it, we may believe that God is like our abusive or absent parents or significant others...
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Step Two Share
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Step Two - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
This was a hard step for me as I wanted no part of religion and I was not comfortable with talking about God. But I had accepted my powerlessness in the First Step and I was willing to try.
First I had to admit t...
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Tradition 2
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From the "12 Steps and 12 Traditions" book:
"For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern."
"Where does AA get its direction? Who runs it? This, too,...
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access to this board? John? Dot?
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It has come to my attention that when people try to come to this board from the ACoA message board that there is a message that says that this board no longer exists!! Please say it isn't so! It is still possible to come in through the home page menu. What's up?
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Step 2 - AA
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From the "12 Steps and 12 Traditions" book of AA:
"Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"
"The moment they read Step 2, most AA newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, sometimes a serious one. How often have we heard them cry out, 'Look...
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Traditipn One share
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Tradition One - Our common welfare should come first - personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity.
This is a WE program. Our own recovery depends on the well-being of our group and al-anon as a whole - the same as in a family.
For me it means that I help keep my al-anon meeting a s...
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Amanda
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Hi - Don't see why we can't try it a week at a time and see how it works. For me it's a matter of time - but I'll try to post in a timely manner.
Go for it - Love Dot
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Tradition 1
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From the AA "12 Step and 12 Tradition book":
Tradition 1 - "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity."
"The unity of AA is the most cherished quality our Society has. Our lives, the lives of all to come, depend squarely upon it. We st...
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Step 1 - AA
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"Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness...
"But upon entering AA we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through this utter defeat are we able to ta...
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hello
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Hi, I am just checking in. I'm willing to help with this board just as I helped with the old one. Are we going to start the Steps over again? which is fine with me. I am going to wait to hear from Dot or John before I do anything.
laterzzzz,
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