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Step Ten – Taking Personal Inventory

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Making your way through the 12-Steps means you have admitted you are powerless. You have developed a relationship with a Higher Power, found your part, and admitted it. Your support system has helped you accept your character defects. With your sponsor’s help, you have made a list of people you have harmed and tried to […]

Step Ten – Taking Personal Inventory

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Making your way through the 12-Steps means you have admitted you are powerless. You have developed a relationship with a Higher Power, found your part, and admitted it. Your support system has helped you accept your character defects. With your sponsor’s help, you have made a list of people you have harmed and tried to […]

Step Eight: Make a List and Become Willing

Step Eight: Make a List and Become Willing

Now that you have continued through your 12-Step work with vigor and truth, you understand that your character defects can hold you back from being everything you wish to be. Relationships, especially, can be challenging to navigate when you realize that you have been bringing some negativity into them. As you start to gain clarity […]

Step Three – Turning Your Will Over

As you start moving through your steps, you will get a clearer understanding that you are powerless over alcohol and begin to see you need a spiritual connection to remain sober. After this revelation, you will find yourself embarking on Step 3. This vital step can lead you in a better direction altogether because you […]

Tips to Align with Your Higher Power

Talking about connecting to a Higher Power is a hard conversation for some to be a part of. Whether your religious affiliation has left a bad taste in your mouth, you have only encountered hypocritical religious people, or you just have never been introduced to spirituality before, you should still try to see what happens. […]

Is a 12-Step Program Really the Last House on the Block?

Is a 12-Step Program Really the Last House on the Block?

Part of the charm of a 12-Step program is knowing that in 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) started a whole revolution of people trying to better themselves through changing their thinking, and replacing their addictive behaviors with sober ones. Since AA started, there are have been many other recovery programs that have emulated the same model […]

Tips for Etiquette at 12-Step Meetings

Tips for Etiquette at 12-Step Meetings

Meetings for a 12-Step program are one of the keys to getting connected in your sobriety. Other people who are also trying to stay sober come to these meetings to get the tools and the solution that they need to better understand their addiction while learning what they need to do to recover from it. […]

What are the Benefits of Picking Up That 1000 Pound Phone?

What are the Benefits of Picking Up That 1000 Pound Phone?

The basis of the 12-Step program started with one alcoholic literally picking up the phone and calling another alcoholic to keep from drinking that day. Surprisingly this method worked and continued to work one day at a time for the person who decided to use the phone to reach out when they felt overwhelmed by […]

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