12 Steps to the Newcomer
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12 Steps to the Newcomer
Some often ask to explain the 12 steps in "laymans terms".. Hope this helps!
Another Way to Explain the 12 Steps to a Newcomer
Step 1. I had an old clunker parked in the driveway. I
had just about given up on it, but decided to make a
whole hearted attempt to restore it.
Step 2. I couldn't fix it, but I came to believe someone could.
Step 3. I turned the car over to a mechanic.
Step 4. I took the inventory of all that was wrong with the old clunker.
Step 5. I shared the inventory with the mechanic.
Step 6. I helped take off the old parts.
Step 7. I let the mechanic handle the rest.
Step 8. We made a list of all the parts that we needed, and got
together and went over them.
Step 9. I admitted I hadn't checked the oil and fluids properly or fixed
the other things that were going wrong. It was my responsibility to
take care fo the car and I had not. I wanted to help, but being unfamiliar
withe process, I allowed the mechanic to fix things.
The car turned out beautifully!
Step 10. I checked the oil, fluids regularly, and when I didn't
the engine didn't hummmmmm.
Step 11. I called on the mechanic whenever there was trouble,
asking him to fix the car.
Step 12. The mechanic and I had become such close friends....
we decided to take a trip across the country, and stopped to
help all that needed help along the way.
Another Way to Explain the 12 Steps to a Newcomer
Step 1. I had an old clunker parked in the driveway. I
had just about given up on it, but decided to make a
whole hearted attempt to restore it.
Step 2. I couldn't fix it, but I came to believe someone could.
Step 3. I turned the car over to a mechanic.
Step 4. I took the inventory of all that was wrong with the old clunker.
Step 5. I shared the inventory with the mechanic.
Step 6. I helped take off the old parts.
Step 7. I let the mechanic handle the rest.
Step 8. We made a list of all the parts that we needed, and got
together and went over them.
Step 9. I admitted I hadn't checked the oil and fluids properly or fixed
the other things that were going wrong. It was my responsibility to
take care fo the car and I had not. I wanted to help, but being unfamiliar
withe process, I allowed the mechanic to fix things.
The car turned out beautifully!
Step 10. I checked the oil, fluids regularly, and when I didn't
the engine didn't hummmmmm.
Step 11. I called on the mechanic whenever there was trouble,
asking him to fix the car.
Step 12. The mechanic and I had become such close friends....
we decided to take a trip across the country, and stopped to
help all that needed help along the way.
Last edited by Chy; 05-11-2004 at 01:04 PM.
This Old Clunker Wants That Mechanic 
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Congrats on 39 days
I am new and want to get involved! People make sense here and although I feel I would like to help anyone along I could.
If I may share!
I didn't want to believe it is true and my intellegence struggles with the idea that my body is my life and determines what kind of fate I suffer in the end.
I don't want to blat about my life. Just want to share that sometimes we dont always choose the path we are given. I feel as though I am in a tough place right now and in no position to give advice. I will try to get through this by sharing some things I dont think I ever have. I wasn't always like this, only when times got so bad that I felt I had to self medicate. For some reason it grabs you by the butt and then it begins to give you false hope of uphoria. You welcome it and then your life becomes obsessed with it and you punish yourself over and over again. Your mind screams out this is insanity. Sometimes all you can think is I want to disapear. But you dont, you live with your kids following your foot steps and who are you to tell them they shouldn't do what you tought them?
A different sadness come over when you realize yes it is my fault. But it wasn't my fault when it was all I knew.
I really felt like popping open a beer but I came here tonight. Thanks for letting me come and get through today!
Let us sleep in a peaceful sleep knowing that we had not harmed anyone or ouselves. I think that would be my Christmas wish for all of you that are begining to heal.
NB
If I may share!
I didn't want to believe it is true and my intellegence struggles with the idea that my body is my life and determines what kind of fate I suffer in the end.
I don't want to blat about my life. Just want to share that sometimes we dont always choose the path we are given. I feel as though I am in a tough place right now and in no position to give advice. I will try to get through this by sharing some things I dont think I ever have. I wasn't always like this, only when times got so bad that I felt I had to self medicate. For some reason it grabs you by the butt and then it begins to give you false hope of uphoria. You welcome it and then your life becomes obsessed with it and you punish yourself over and over again. Your mind screams out this is insanity. Sometimes all you can think is I want to disapear. But you dont, you live with your kids following your foot steps and who are you to tell them they shouldn't do what you tought them?
A different sadness come over when you realize yes it is my fault. But it wasn't my fault when it was all I knew.
I really felt like popping open a beer but I came here tonight. Thanks for letting me come and get through today!
Let us sleep in a peaceful sleep knowing that we had not harmed anyone or ouselves. I think that would be my Christmas wish for all of you that are begining to heal.
NB
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no wonder
hey chy, remember all the pm's we had in the early days when i couldnt get the surrender thing, wasnt going to give in to anything blah blah blah.
no wonder i didnt get it, you were talking about cars and i thought i was supposed to be having some form of epiphany hahaha.
hugs
kath
ps why is that cars always run well when you take them to the mechanic "hey dude it has this squeek!" then the mechanic drives it and it purrs like a dream. then you go hey wow and it squeeks all the way home hahahha
love ya's
kath
no wonder i didnt get it, you were talking about cars and i thought i was supposed to be having some form of epiphany hahaha.
hugs
kath
ps why is that cars always run well when you take them to the mechanic "hey dude it has this squeek!" then the mechanic drives it and it purrs like a dream. then you go hey wow and it squeeks all the way home hahahha
love ya's
kath
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