i reckon one of the most important ideas ive learned through my recovery is the ability to open up and talk about my inner most secrets with another. from this seemingly simple act ive grown in damn near all areas of my life. though it wasnt a truly easy thing to do when i first...
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tellin my sponsor all the dirt i had found out about myself from my personal inventory was a very scary thing for me to do. it provoked emotions within me that had me terrified of the response i was most def expectin. if i wanted to begin to live a life i had seen the...
i still need to implement the solutions i learned early in my recovery. recallin all the unmanageability, lack of self-control, and absolute selfishness can still cause me fear even with years of practiced recovery. this is where i must use the self-discipline recovery has taught me to use. i get the opportunity to place the...
the beginnin of deflatin my ego had begun to happen a little before this step, but this step surely put it into full swing. havin learned how to control my anger a little, havin gained enough humility to listen to others truthfully tell me about me, and havin become open-minded to hearin the possible solutions...
A Vision of Hope Page 13 Learning about acceptance, love, and compassion helps us to accept ourselves without conditions. As our faith deepens, our understanding of what it means to act in good faith changes as well. We no longer use our disease or where we are in our recovery as an alibi for bad...
Chapter One: Living Clean Page 3-4 Paragraph 4 The message we carry has three parts: Any addict can stop using, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live. We talk a lot about the first two, because stopping is an emergency when we get here, and losing the obsession is necessary...
Abandon – a) to give up control or influence of another person or agent b) to give up with the intent of never claiming a right or interest again. * Merriam-Webster Dictionary “God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity.” – Psalm 68.5 nasb Something to think about: Do...
Accepted – a) to receive (something offered) willingly b) to be able to designed to take or hold (something applied or added) *Merriam-Webster Dictionary “Before he made the world, God chose us to be his very own through what Christ would do for us; he decided then to make us holy in his eyes, without...
for me to have respect for others i had to learn how to love others. learnin how to love others taught me how to love myself, then to accept love from others. i had to learn how to accept myself for the person i was. the personal inventory of step 4 helped me with that....
recallin the day i told my sponsor my 4th step inventory, he suggested i do as the big book suggests in the last paragraph on page 75. what i have experienced from that moment to now is what recovery says it has to offer. i wanna say today that idk if i did my 5th...