God Neutral 12 Steps
- Drinking and drugs were bad for me.
- I could not do it alone - something about the AA group helped me stay sober.
- Having all the answers was not a help. I had to learn to listen and follow directions.
- I had to stop blaming, rationalizing, excusing, and take responsibility, and to take a good look at my self.
- My version of events was skewed, I needed to run it by someone a bit more objective.
- I had all my life been doing things that hurt me, sabotaged my best efforts, my self esteem was warped, twisted, improperly inflated.
- I had to look at these things, stop doing them, and work on my self esteem.
- I had shame - I had to address it in order to move on, to own my part in things.
- I had to make things right, by living soberly, and by owning my responsibility to people I had hurt. (appropriately, discretely, and not to those still raging and drinking) --- (I did not repay the sick leave I had taken because of hangovers though) I did a much better job at work though.
- I had to learn to use the emergency brake. When I started to lie or get angry, how to slow down - shutting my mouth was usually a good start.
- Came to understand that in the universe I am just a speck and to act accordingly.
- Whew!! I do these things. I am a better person, I am happy, I can actually like the person I have become - sometimes people come to me for help and I sometimes have things to say that help them.
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