12/13/20 Step 12, the 12th step, Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. We talk about what it means for your spirit to be awakened, how the evidence exists for this happening, ways in […]
11/1/20 Step Eleven – Sought Through Prayer and Meditation To Improve Our Conscious Contact With God As We Understood Him, Praying Only For Knowledge Of His Will For Us and the Power To Carry That Out. Step 11, the 11th Step, where we seek to increase our relationship with our higher power. We also stop […]
10/4/20 Step 10 conversation that gets to the reasoning for doing the 10th Step. Why do we continue to look at ourselves, actions, emotions and attitudes regularly? How do we take this look? What types of things do we look at? What is the purpose of the Tenth Step? Do we keep working the steps […]
9/6/20 We talk step 9 and everything we know about the amends process. The 9th step involves lots of creative thinking about how to repair the harm we have done in the world. We look at the 3 R’s of amends: restoration, restitution, and resolution. These are the goals of amends, to try to make […]
8/2/20 Step 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all (Sort Of). We talk about the 8th step in this episode, and attempt to see if there is more to it than just making a list of people. We look at how to become […]
7/5/20 We talk about Step 7, Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings, how we apply it in our lives, how we work the 7th step, how it might apply to someone not in a 12 step program. We use some of the literature to point out what has worked for us and what hasn’t. […]
6/14/20 One is never enough! We enjoyed the comments about our Step 6 episode on social media so much that we had to recognize and talk about them. So we continue the discussion on the 6th Step about becoming entirely to have our defects of character removed.
6/7/20 Step 6. Were entirely ready to have god remove all these defects of character. We discuss aspects of becoming entirely ready, share our experience with working the step, and talk about the practical ways this presents itself in our daily lives. We attempt to explain what step 6 would look like for someone who […]
5/3/20 If you want to skip to Step 5 go to around the 45 minute mark. We discuss what exactly is the “exact nature of our wrongs.” From there, we talk about character defects, the reasons we did the things we did in addiction, and what’s behind the patterns of our acting out. We discuss […]
4/6/20 We explore the fourth step in most 12 step programs. What does it mean to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves? Why moral? Whose morals are we following? Whose morals do we need to follow? Are we supposed to be free of fear? How do we deal with the guilt and […]
3/1/20 We talk about step 3. Breaking down the ideas of “making a decision” and “turning over our will and our lives to the care of god” for someone who might have never heard of recovery or addiction. Helping someone who might not understand the process of the 12 steps to possibly relate it to […]
2/9/20 We invite our first guest co host, Steve, on to talk about step 2. We break down the concepts of “power greater than” and “restoration to sanity” for the newer member, or someone who has no experience with 12 step programs. We speak about the process of coming to believe, what sanity might be, […]
