a run thru the steps

[stickmonkey]

First, identify a situation in your personal or work life that is currently a source of resentment, fear, sadness of anger. Write a brief statement describing the situation and indicating why it concerns you.

Step One: In what ways are you powerless over the situation or condition, and how is it showing you the unmanageability of your life?

Step Two: How do you see your Higher Power as assisting you in being restored to wholeness?

Step Three: How does being willing to turn your life and your will over the care of God assist you in dealing with this?

Step Four: What character traits have surfaced (for example, fear of abandonment or authority figures, seeking control, seeking approval, obsessive/compulsive behavior, rescuing, taking inappropriate responsibility, not expressing feelings)?

Step Five: Admit your wrongs to God, to yourself, and to another human being.

Step Six: Are you entirely ready to work in partnership with God to remove your defective behaviors? If not, explain why.

Step Seven: Can you humbly ask God for help in removing your shortcomings? If not, what stands in your way?

Step Eight: Make a list of persons who are being harmed by your behaviors.

Step Nine: What amends are necessary, and how will you make them?

Step Ten: Review the Steps listed above to be sure nothing has been overlooked.

Step Eleven: Take a moment for prayer and meditation, asking for knowledge of God's will for you. What did you discover?

Step Twelve: How can your understanding and spiritual guidance assist you in dealing with the problem you identified?

[Lin]

I'm not NA ro even AA. I'm Alanon and acoa. But I thank you for your posts. I love the questions for the steps. It's like a journaling activity. I alos loved the post on the slogans. Know that others ARE reading...even if we don't always post replies.

LIN (from across the hallway)

[stickmonkey]

glad you are here
i do naranon too
but mostly na
thanks

[caressa]

Great share! There is no Nar-Anon in our area so I do Al-Anon. I go once a month to our local jail and share with Young Offenders and adults if they put in a request for a visit.

I have done NA and AA in the past along with Al-Anon. I always say, "I have one reason to be in AA and NA, but 3-33 reasons to be at Al-Anon. I have been in recovery from alcohol and prescription drug addiction for 15 years. I am the daughter of an alcoholic, I was married to an alcoholic, and my son is a self-admitted one, although he has beeen into cocaine the past year.

The Al-Anon slogan, "Let It Begin With Me" puts the responsibility on my shoulders and tells me to look at me. It isn't about what my son is doing, it is about me and my recovery.