Step Work

JamesCT · JamesCT

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. When I worked this step from the perspective of how my ACoA behavior affected the people around me, I realized that I owed amends to someone I didn't realize I had hurt. She didn't even realize she was damaged. But i...

johnnyb · johnnyb

I am a survivor of exual abuse at the hands of my parents. I took my dads rape of me as love. I have explored my sexuality via on-line phone hookups with men. I am male. I have discovered rape was not love and the thought of being gay is disgusting to me. my girlfriend found ot what I was doing an...

JamesCT · JamesCT

7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. The Beatles: Help! You know, I need someone! Help! - John Lennon and Paul McCartney First, as always, read "God" as "Higher Power" if you have issues with religion. Next, while we have to do as much as we can to free ourselves from ou...

hotrod · hotrod

Step 7 HUMBLY ASKED HIM TO REMOVE OUR SHORTCOMINGSC2C PAGE 31I want to be ready for my shortcoming s to be removed, I will do what I can to prepare. I will develop a non judgmental awareness of myself, accept what I discover and be fully ready to change. I lack the power to heal myself Only my Higher Pow...

Tiggs2 · Tiggs2

I am working the ACoA Steps and it is slowly changing my life. Now that I am mid-way through Step 3, I realize that this is not a process that i can successfully comply without a sponsor. Unfortunately, I live in a relatively remote location. Although we do have a small weekly ACoA meeting here, I am fi...

JamesCT · JamesCT

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Self-honesty is the best policy. While you're not trying to beat yourself up (as you are probably already well versed at that) you are trying to accept yourself and the includes accepting the exact nature of y...

ianmac · ianmac

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...

hotrod · hotrod

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...

hotrod · hotrod

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...

Sabin · Sabin

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...

JamesCT · JamesCT

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...

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...

Gracie1965 · Gracie1965

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...

hotrod · hotrod

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...

JamesCT · JamesCT

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...

hotrod · hotrod

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...

newlease · newlease

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...

JamesCT · JamesCT

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...

notcrazy62 · notcrazy62

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 ...

JamesCT · JamesCT

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 8 for ACoA (Preview) 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. When I worked this step from the perspective of how my ACoA behavior affected the people around me, I realized that I owed amends to someone I didn't realize I had hurt. She didn't even realize she was damaged. But i...	JamesCT	0	976	Dec 24, 2013 by JamesCT
	sex abuse survivors thinking they may be gay (Preview) I am a survivor of exual abuse at the hands of my parents. I took my dads rape of me as love. I have explored my sexuality via on-line phone hookups with men. I am male. I have discovered rape was not love and the thought of being gay is disgusting to me. my girlfriend found ot what I was doing an...	johnnyb	4	1039	Dec 22, 2013 by johnnyb
	Step 7 for ACoA (Preview) 7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. The Beatles: Help! You know, I need someone! Help! - John Lennon and Paul McCartney First, as always, read "God" as "Higher Power" if you have issues with religion. Next, while we have to do as much as we can to free ourselves from ou...	JamesCT	1	1039	Dec 17, 2013 by DavidG
	Step 7 Alanon (Preview) Step 7 HUMBLY ASKED HIM TO REMOVE OUR SHORTCOMINGSC2C PAGE 31I want to be ready for my shortcoming s to be removed, I will do what I can to prepare. I will develop a non judgmental awareness of myself, accept what I discover and be fully ready to change. I lack the power to heal myself Only my Higher Pow...	hotrod	2	2117	Dec 13, 2013 by hotrod
	Working the ACoA Steps and in need of a Sponsor (Preview) I am working the ACoA Steps and it is slowly changing my life. Now that I am mid-way through Step 3, I realize that this is not a process that i can successfully comply without a sponsor. Unfortunately, I live in a relatively remote location. Although we do have a small weekly ACoA meeting here, I am fi...	Tiggs2	1	1147	Nov 28, 2013 by DavidG
	Step 5 for ACoA (Preview) 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Self-honesty is the best policy. While you're not trying to beat yourself up (as you are probably already well versed at that) you are trying to accept yourself and the includes accepting the exact nature of y...	JamesCT	0	920	Nov 19, 2013 by JamesCT
	Have you had a William James type spiritual experience (Preview) 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...	ianmac	0	1070	Nov 18, 2013 by ianmac
	ALANON 5TH STEP (Preview) 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...	hotrod	2	1465	Nov 15, 2013 by hotrod
	STEP 3 ALANON (Preview) 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...	hotrod	6	1496	Nov 8, 2013 by hotrod
	Redoing the steps and finding a sponsor (Preview) 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...	Sabin	2	1031	Oct 30, 2013 by Sabin
	ACoA Step 9 (Preview) 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...	JamesCT	4	1207	Oct 29, 2013 by Sabin
	Step 2 for ACoA (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	3	3834	Oct 22, 2013 by JamesCT
	ACOA yellow 12 step workbook (Preview) 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...	Gracie1965	5	4384	Oct 16, 2013 by DavidG
	ALANON STEP 10 (Preview) 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...	hotrod	10	6745	Oct 7, 2013 by hotrod
	ACoA Step 10 (Preview) 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...	JamesCT	2	1054	Oct 2, 2013 by Jacks1964
	ALANON STEP 12 (Preview) 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...	hotrod	4	1277	Sep 13, 2013 by hotrod
	Step One (Preview) 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...	newlease	2	1028	Sep 11, 2013 by newlease
	ACoA Step 12 (Preview) 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...	JamesCT	0	888	Sep 9, 2013 by JamesCT
	Step 1 - ACOA - Common behavior characteristics (Preview) 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 ...	notcrazy62	4	2671	Aug 31, 2013 by Jacks1964
	ACoA Step 1 (Preview) 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...	JamesCT	17	3029	Aug 30, 2013 by Ula
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