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06-15-2012, 06:57 AM

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doing the Steps

I have decided to start the steps today. Is anyone else doing them? Is so, how are you doing?

06-15-2012, 08:36 AM

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I started them a while ago. They were not helpful, so I quit. I found I was better off without them.

It's worth a shot though. It could be that one thing that really helps you.

06-15-2012, 09:34 AM

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Check out PurpleSquirrel's thread here... read to the end....she's looking for stepwork partners too: http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...ut-myself.html

06-15-2012, 01:24 PM

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Carol Star

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Instead of doing the steps I am trying to live in the steps. I can apply them to any problem. I can run any feeling or emotion through the steps. I am big with fear and anger. They visit me less and less. There is an exercise I heard about in an Alanon meeting- write on the left side of a piece of paper everything anybody had done- on the right side write my reactions- NOW rip the paper in half. My part is the right side/ my reactions ! to BLAME is to B- Lame. I get better if I work on what I can change with HP's help- ME.

06-18-2012, 06:57 AM

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CArol - I love the list idea I think I will have to try it

06-18-2012, 08:24 AM

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Carol Star

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It was huge for me- going back through my life experiences and years no matter the circumstance I had a pattern of (overreacting, anger, being too sensitive)- over and over.....now that I KNOW that -I can change me.......It is exciting. We get angry and we need to vent but appropriately.....call someone, go for a walk, pray, go to a meeting, or whatever.......sometimes I have to let stuff "pass".....like our slogan- "This too shall pass-" OH and journal.......change my perspective, acceptance, meditate- I learned in yoga. Now that I have identified this stuff I can go - oh there I go doing that- run it through the steps....and the 10th step at the end of the day I ask myself what I could have done different ? have I overreacted or been too sensitive, or gone coo coo on the anger meter ?

06-19-2012, 06:29 AM

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Carol Star

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There is a short version of steps 10 and 11 to do at night; Today was I -1.selfish, 2. indifferent, 3. insecure, 4. without love, without humility, 5. without understanding ??????