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🔥 An Unmanageable Life “That our lives had become unmanageable” What does this second part of step one mean? It means my problems really began when I I put down the drink… In a state of abstinence from alcohol I become restless, irritable and discontent… “We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t controlContinue reading “The God Idea”

🔥 The Root of All Fear Do you wear the world like a loose garment?… Or do you wear it like a skin tight body suit?… Walking this earth believing you have ownership of everything in your life is the root of most of your fears… Once you place ownership on anything in your life,Continue reading “Permanence”

🔥 No Past, No Future, Now A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth. It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inabilityContinue reading “The Now”

🔥 A Decision If you make a serious decision to turn away from your old way of thinking and living… If you REALLY mean it… Nothing can stop you. No negativity, no depression, no failure, no one else’s BS can ever affect your progress in recovery and in life. Just make the decision. One moreContinue reading “A Decision”

🔥 Diligence and Effort One of the requirements to work the Steps is a certain amount of diligence… Another requirement is effort… Diligence and effort. We and only we have control over the amount of diligence and effort that we contribute to our own recovery… Another requirement to work the steps is a willingness toContinue reading “Effort”

🔥 Deep Down Within Having established our problem as being a lack of power… We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could solve our problem… We finally accepted that we needed God’s help… But where do we find God?… We find God deep down within… “Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, butContinue reading “Deep Down Within”

🔥 To Thyself be True God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference” Funnily enough the serenity prayer was not written by some spiritual icon of the ages, it was written by an American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. TheContinue reading “The Serenity Prayer”

🔥 Self Examination “For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong”. – Step 10 The 12 Steps and 12Continue reading “Self Examination”

🔥 Too Much of Me “And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid”. – The Big Book P62 I don’t know about you, but at some stage I get sick and tired of too much of me in my life… Too much of my own BS… Causing meContinue reading “Too Much of Me”

🔥 The Quality Of Thankfulness Gratitude – the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. What is the the quality of your Thankfulness?… Are you consistently in a state of readiness to return kindness shown to you?… Or are you so blocked by bitternes and resentment you cannot seeContinue reading “Gratitude”