Taking Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol...
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol -- that our lives had become unmanageable. I began my journey of understanding, then...
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On my own journey through recovery, MyRecoveryCorner.com is my opportunity to collect and share my experience, strength, and hope. So much of what we hear in the rooms has been heard before, repeated with some additions, embellishments and edits. I make no claim that what I recount is original. My sponsor reminds me everything I knew about recovery coming in to the rooms was on the first page of the Big Book. You don't have to look, it's blank in the earlier editions. I'll annotate and give credit when I recall or am able to but this is shared in the spirit of giving back what was so freely given to me. Your own shared experiences are encouraged and welcome.
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Taking Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Recall that when you read chapter 2 it is...
Taking Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God ...
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. What do we mean by "will" and our...
Taking Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. The transition from taking Step 3 to taking Step 4 is immediate. ...
Taking Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being ...
Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. The first thing I like to appreciate...
Taking Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Willingness is the foundation. Believing is the...
Taking Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Humility (noun): a modest or low view of on'es own importance; humbleness; modesty;...
Taking Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing ...
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Big Book, pg. 76 "Now we need more...
Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure...
Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Back in Chapter 5: How It...
Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. pg. 84-85 "This thought brings us to STEP TEN,...
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God...
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge...
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps....
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these...
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