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Experience the spiritual awakening that occurs when you take the Twelve Steps in four one-hour sessions.

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I clear my life from all distractions.

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I clear my life from all distractions. My gift to the world is my priority. It's okay for me to say no to the dreams of other...

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I clear my life from all distractions.<br />
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It's okay for me to say no to the dreams of others and say YES to my own!</div>
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There are SO many excuses that can distract us from our calling!

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Title: There are SO many excuses that can distract us from our calling!
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /></span>There are SO many excuses that can distract us from our calling!</div>
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Here are some:<br />
Facebook<br />
Twitter<br />
Instagram<br />
Email<br />
Over giving to others<br />
Making other people more important than ourselves<br />
Watching TV<br />
Too much socializing<br />
Eating<br />
Drinking<br />
Sleeping<br />
Drugs<br />
Toxic relationships<br />
Putting things off until tomorrow!<br />
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There is a rich gift within you that the world NEEDS you to give us. You don't even recognize your power or importance.<br />
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But it's there and it's waiting to be born. And the thing is that the world will not tell you this - only the subtle whisper within you does. And perhaps a good friend or two. Or an inspiring book or story that you read.<br />
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But in order to create this gift, in order to give birth to it... YOU must let go of all distractions.<br />
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Seriously, how much time do you spend on the above things? And how much time do you spend ACTUALLY creating or giving your gift?<br />
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There are SO many excuses that can distract us from our calling!

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I challenge you to do Christmas differently this year.

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Title: I challenge you to do Christmas differently this year.
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If you are tired of your holiday experience being too focused on stuff, I challenge you to do it differently this year. Concentrate on how k...

I challenge you to do Christmas differently this year.

If you are tired of your holiday experience being too focused on stuff, I challenge you to do it differently this year. Concentrate on how k...

the long, slow, boring and often painful route

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Title: the long, slow, boring and often painful route
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When it comes to our development, when it comes to real change, the long, slow, boring and often painful route is quite reliably, the most ...

the long, slow, boring and often painful route

When it comes to our development, when it comes to real change, the long, slow, boring and often painful route is quite reliably, the most ...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.

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Title: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."...

Back To Basics Meeting

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<li class="li1">•<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Back to Basics provides a solid spiritual foundation for recovery.</li>
<li class="li1">It takes away the fear and confusion surrounding the recovery process.</li>
<li class="li1">It takes away the fear of finding a sponsor.</li>
<li class="li1">It takes away the fear of sponsoring others.</li>
<li class="li1">The meetings provide a clear and concise introduction to the Steps.</li>
<li class="li1">The meetings are “profound, effective and vitally necessary.”</li>
<li class="li1">They re-energize old-timers and jump-start those who may be “stuck.”</li>
<li class="li1">They provide an ongoing opportunity to be of service.</li>
<li class="li1">They bring the “Big Book” alive.</li>
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The Christian Roots of the Twelve Steps

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<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have, with God's help, led millions of alcoholics, addicts and codependents to recovery for over 70 years. Written by AA co-founder Bill W., the Twelve Steps are based on the principles of The Oxford Group, an evangelical Christian movement in the early 20th century founded by Lutheran minster Dr. Frank Buchman. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Interestingly, because the first AA meetings were actually Oxford Group meetings, those attending to recover from alcoholism brought their bibles for studying Oxford Group principles. Among the readings studied and recommended by AA co-sponsor Dr. Bob were the Sermon on the Mount, and the "love chapter" from 1 Corinthians 13, and the Book of James. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those early AA meetings almost became known as "James meetings" in reference to the book of the same name. With this early background, naturally a lot less cussing went on than is heard (unfortunately) in local AA meetings today... which is precisely why many in the church recovering from alcoholism prefer to attend Christ-centered groups like our Christian 12-Step meetings. Sadly, Bill W. and Dr. Bob broke off from the Oxford Group because of its heavy evangelistic emphasis. They and other alcoholics were turned off by hypocrisy and legalism from church leaders who didn’t practice what they preached and were no better than those they were trying to convert. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The breakaway meetings Bill and Bob held for </span><strong style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://www.12steptreatmentcentres.com/REHAB_CLINICS_REHABILITATION_CENTERS_WAITING_TIMES_34.asp" style="color: #555555; text-decoration: initial;">alcoholics</a></strong><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> who wanted to get sober but felt similarly burned by the church became known as Alcoholics Anonymous after the book of the same name was first published in 1939. As Christians, we know Jesus told His disciples to “follow Me” and not “follow My people,” and He saved his strongest condemations for the hypocritical religious leaders of His day (Matthew 23:13-27). But the shortcomings of the church in Bill and Bob's day left them bitter and cynical, and serve as an example to us of how it hinders and shoots down the witness of Christianity to the unbelieving world. And yet in spite of all that, the 12 Steps have been used by God to lead alcoholics who walked away from the church back to Christ as they worked the steps. It has also helped atheists and agnostics find Him through the many biblical references peppered throughout AA literature, such as the books of the bible used by Dr. Bob in those early meetings. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today as back then, addicts who study the 12 Steps and the principles they embody are discovering and embracing who their Higher Power really is -- Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Lord of the Universe!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://www.12steptreatmentcentres.com/christian-12-steps-the-twelve-step-program-for-christians-96.asp" style="color: #555555; text-decoration: initial;">The Twelve Steps</a></strong><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> These are the Twelve Steps as they are printed in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Life-Recovery-Bible-Step-People/dp/0842328092%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Ddreawarreco-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0842328092" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="The Life Recovery Bible: The 12 Step Bible for People in Recovery">The Life Recovery Bible</a>. The words "alcohol" and "alcoholics" have been replaced respectively with "dependencies" and "others", and "God as we understood Him" is shortened simply to "God". </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. We admitted we were powerless over our dependencies -- that our lives had become unmanageable. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves (Jesus) could restore us to sanity. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. We made a decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of God. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. We admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">10. We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">11. We continued through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry it out. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and practiced these principles in all our affairs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From the AA Big Book, Page 60 </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many of us exclaimed, "What an order! I can't go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual principles. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection. Our description of the alcoholic, our chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(c) That God could and would if He were sought.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Serenity Prayer</span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This prayer is said at all 12-Step meetings, usually at the beginning or the end. The first paragraph is the original Serenity Prayer and is of unknown origin, but is said to go back to ancient times. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reinhold Neibuhr, a 20th century Christian theologian, wrote the additional lines that identify Jesus Christ as our Higher Power.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship as the pathway to peace...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Accepting, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it, trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.</span><br />
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<strong>Step 1:</strong> We admit that we cannot realize our fullest human potential by living a life of selfishness.</div>
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<strong>Step 2:</strong> We confess that Jesus Christ can lead us to the fullness of life.<br />
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<strong>Step 3: </strong>We decide to turn our lives over to Jesus Christ<br />
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<strong>Step 4:</strong> We make a searching and fearless moral inventory.<br />
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<strong>Step 5:</strong> We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.<br />
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<strong>Step 6:</strong> We declare ourselves ready to have God remove all our defects of character.<br />
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<strong>Step 7:</strong> We humbly ask God to remove all our shortcomings.<br />
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<strong>Step 8: </strong>We make a list of all persons we have harmed, and determine to make amends to them.<br />
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<strong>Step</strong> <strong>9: </strong>We make direct amends to those we have harmed, except when to do so would injure them<br />
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<strong>Step 10: </strong>We continue to take personal inventory, and promptly admit when we are wrong.<br />
<strong>Step</strong> <strong>11:</strong><strong> </strong>We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry it out<br />
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<strong>Step 12:</strong> Spiritually awakened as a result of these Steps, we are determined to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all areas of life.</div>
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This is a short film which captures the essence of the "Cloud of Unknowing," a collection of writings by an anonymous medieval mystic.

I was overwhelmed and relieved at how much I related to the list that follows. It described me down to my deepest insides.

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Title: I was overwhelmed and relieved at how much I related to the list that follows. It described me down to my deepest insides.
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I was overwhelmed and relieved at how much I related to the list that follows. It described me down to my deepest insides. a) Having h...

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">I was overwhelmed and relieved at how much I related to the list that follows. It described me down to my deepest insides. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">a)    Having had no frame of reference for healthy behaviour, we guess at what normal is.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">b)    We often feel that we are different from other people.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">c)    We tend to lie when it would be just as easy to tell the truth.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">d)    We have feelings of low self-esteem as a result of being criticised.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">e)    We judge others and ourselves harshly.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">f)     We try to cover up our poor opinions of ourselves by being perfectionistic, controlling, contemptuous and gossipy.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">g)    Angry people and personal criticism intimidate us, causing us to feel inadequate and insecure.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">h)    We tend to isolate ourselves, out of fear, and to feel uneasy around other people, especially authority figures.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">i)      We have difficulty with intimacy, security, trust and commitment in our relationships.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">j)      We constantly seek acknowledgement and affirmation.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">k)     We are desperate for love and approval and will do anything to make people like us.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">l)      Not wanting to hurt others, we remain loyal in situations and relationships even when evidence indicates our loyalty is undeserved.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">m)   We are dependant personalities who are so terrified of abandonment that we tend to stay in situations or relationships that are harmful to us. Our fears and dependency stop us from ending unfulfilling relationships and prevent us from entering into fulfilling ones.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">n)    We become alcoholics or addicts ourselves, marry them, or both, or find other compulsive personalities, such as a workaholic, to fulfil our sick need for abandonment.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">o)    We continue to attract emotionally unavailable people with addictive personalities.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">p)    We live life as victims, blaming others for our circumstances, and are attracted to other victims as friends and lovers. We confuse love with pity and tend to ‘love’ people we can pity and rescue.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">q)    We are either super responsible or super irresponsible. We take responsibility for solving others’ problems or expect others to be responsible for solving ours. This enables us to avoid being responsible for our own lives and choices.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">r)     We feel guilty when we stand up for ourselves or act in our own best interest. We give in to others’ needs and opinions instead of taking care of ourselves.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">s)    Lacking clearly defined limits and boundaries; we become enmeshed in our partners’ needs and emotions.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">t)      We deny, minimise or repress our feelings as a result of our traumatic childhoods. We are unaware of the impact our inability to identify and express our feelings has had on our adult lives.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">u)    Denial, repression, isolation, control, shame and inappropriate guilt are legacies from our family of origin. As a result of these symptoms, we feel hopeless and helpless.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">v)    We tend to procrastinate and have difficulty following projects through from beginning to end.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">w)  We have a strong need to be in control, over-reacting to change over which we have no control.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">x)    We tend to lock ourselves into a course of action without giving serious consideration to alternative behaviours or possible consequences. This impulsiveness leads to confusion, self-loathing, and loss of control over our circumstances. As a result, we often have to spend tremendous amounts of time cleaning up the resulting mess.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">y)    We are addicted to excitement in all our affairs, preferring constant upset to workable solutions. As a result, we are inclined to over-dramatise the events in our lives. If our lives become humdrum for any length of time, we tend to find ways to generate upset and drama.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'PT Serif', arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;">z)    We tend to take life and ourselves very seriously, and have difficulty having fun.</p>

I was overwhelmed and relieved at how much I related to the list that follows. It described me down to my deepest insides.

I was overwhelmed and relieved at how much I related to the list that follows. It described me down to my deepest insides. a) Having h...

Kindled by a spark of divine love

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Title: Kindled by a spark of divine love
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Kindled by a spark of divine love, the soul streaks heavenward in an act of intelligence as clear and direct as the rocket's trail of f...

Kindled by a spark of divine love

Kindled by a spark of divine love, the soul streaks heavenward in an act of intelligence as clear and direct as the rocket's trail of f...

The Abundant Life begins when we give up all hope of ever having a better past

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Title: The Abundant Life begins when we give up all hope of ever having a better past
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Put no block between the newcomer and Step 12. Get the newcomer through the process and working with others as quickly as possible.

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Put no block between the newcomer and Step 12. Get the newcomer through the process and working with others as quickly as possible.

Put no block between the newcomer and Step 12. Get the newcomer through the process and working with others as quickly as possible.

Put no block between the newcomer and Step 12. Get the newcomer through the process and working with others as quickly as possible.

How long was Bill sober when he started sponsoring newcomers?

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How long was Bill sober when he started sponsoring newcomers? Approximately two weeks (A.A. , 15:1 and Pass it On , p. 131). How long w...

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