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  1. Acceptance

    October 10, 2015 by Kayce L.

    When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation—some fact of my life —unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concen- trate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.

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  2. Journey of Recovery

    October 1, 2015 by Kayce L.

    Recovery is a journey. A change in lifestyle, friends and ourselves. I myself look back and have nothing but gratitude for the choice I made to make that change in my life.

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  3. Step Prayer

    October 1, 2015 by Kayce L.

    Today, I ask for help with my addiction.Denial has kept me from seeing how powerless I am and how my life is unmanageable. I need to learn and remember that I have an incurable illness and that abstinence is the only way to deal with it.

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  4. Shortcomings 

    September 21, 2015 by Kayce L.

    The joy of life is in the giving. Being freed of our shortcomings, allows humility to grow in us. Our shortcomings can be humbly placed in God’s loving care and be removed.

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  5. Keep it Simple

    September 21, 2015 by Kayce L.

    “Keep it simple” was a phrase that Dr. Bob used in the early days of AA to remind Bill Wilson that too much information was destructive for the newcomer.
    It really is a simple program if you examine the last paragraph in the basic text (first 164 pages):

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  6. Anger and dealing with it. 

    September 11, 2015 by Kayce L.

    The key to dealing with anger is to monitor your self-talk. Self-talk is a major strategy in any anger management program. Self-talk is the conversation you have with yourself about people, situations, circumstances, frustrations, and any expectations that may make you angry. When you are frustrated or angry, you allow that person or situation to occupy most of your thoughts. You will know someone is inside your head when all your self-talk is about them. The way to get things that make you angry out of your head is not to focus on it, but focus on what YOU have control of and take responsibility for your own behavior.

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  7. Recovery and Relationships 

    August 23, 2015 by Kayce L.

    Navigating one’s way through intimate relationships can be difficult regardless of one’s circumstances. Marital and long-term intimate relationships must go through major reconstruction during recovery or face collapsing. This reconstruction often involves healing past wounds to the relationship, redefining role responsibilities, altering daily rituals of communication, and developing new patterns of sexual intimacy. It also involves shedding self-defeating patterns of speaking and acting toward one another that have often become deeply ingrained during ones addiction days.

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  8. Alcoholics greatest enemies

    August 3, 2015 by Kayce L.

    The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear.
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  9. Procrastinating in Recovery

    August 3, 2015 by Kayce L.

    Procrastination is a type of avoidance behavior, thought to be a mechanism for dealing with anxiety. It usually always back fires. In a procrastinators attempt to avoid stress and anxiety they are actually causing themselves more stress and anxiety than what was originally there. In over coming the tendency for procrastination is by acknowledging that it is there. As you go through your daily routines, be conscious of anytime you seem to be procrastinating. Once you realize you are doing it. Think about why you are doing it. And don’t do it. Force yourself to do whatever the task is that you are trying to avoid.

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  10. Having had a Spirtiual Awakening 

    July 13, 2015 by Kayce L.

    “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
    But what are ‘these principles’? The following is what I have found in studying the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, along with the Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions
    12 Steps | 12 Traditions | Accepting and solving problems | Anonymity | Change for the better | Clean house | Doing the right thing | Giving | Grow along spiritual lines | Honesty | Humility | Inclusiveness | Independence | Joy of good living | Kindness | Leadership in AA | Love | Open mindedness | Opposite of… | Patience | Peace and harmony | Surrender | Tolerance | Trust in God | Willingness | Work with others

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