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Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
The second step is about hope, a Higher Power, and dealing with reality.
This step logically follows step 1 in which we surrendered and gave up.
With surrender comes all kinds of unmedicated feelings.
We have to face
Feelings we haven’t dealt with in years or maybe ever.
We likely will have to confront uncomfortable emotions like
our fear, anger, hopelessness.
For us with chemical dependency,
we have to face these things without alcohol and drugs.
For us with codependency,
we have to face these emotions without blame, shame, and self harm
If all of us in this room are powerless,
how can we solve these problems?
How can we cope?
That is why we need step 2, we need a power greater than ourselves.
Let’s go to you first Kayla.
Welcome back to the studios
where have you been?
What is your sobriety date?
where is you home group?
who is your sponsor?
What are your initial thoughts?
Where do you want to begin?
What does the phrase “Power greater than ourselves” mean to you?
What does the term sanity in this step mean to you?
Why does the step say that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity rather than
would restore us to sanity?
On the Power greater than yourself issue, where did you start in your belief?
Has your belief system changed?
How?
What is willingness and how does that work in this step?
Have you ever had to be willing to be willing to make a start?
Addiction is a disease of loneliness, how does this fellowship help?
How has the fellowship helped you?
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How is sanity and reality related?
Tell us about your step 2 story?
What would you say to the new person about step 2?
This week, the Recovered Podcast will continue our step study journey. On Monday, January 18, 2016, The Recovery Topic is Step 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
The second step is about hope, a Higher Power, and dealing with reality. In Step 1 we discovered we were powerless over our problem, “Lack of power, that was our dilemma.” In Step 2, we are given the solution.
Let’s talk about this solution. Tap Speakpipe (especially if you are outside the Unites States) or call 1-734-288-7510 and answer the following question:
What does the phrase, “Power greater than ourselves” mean to you?
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The Big Book
The 12 and 12
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The Big Book devotes 2 whole chapters to Step 1;
Chapter II, There is a Solution and Chapter III, More About Alcoholism
Step 1 is an admission of the central problem we face as alcoholics.
Once we can admit our powerlessness,
a door opens to the solution to our problem.
What does it mean to you to admit something?
Why do you think the step says, “We admitted”
rather than “I admitted?”
What does the term “powerless over alcohol” mean to you?
What are some of you experiences?
What does the term “our lives had become unmanageable” mean to you?
What are some of your experiences?
On page 30 of the big book, it reads,
“We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.”
The book tells us that we had to learn that we had to being powerless to alcohol..
Where did you learn your powerlessness? (big book, meetings, open talks, podcasts, etc)
What does fully concede mean to you?
concede – admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it.
What should a person do if they are not sure they are alcoholic?
Who are we to admit our alcoholism to? Who really matters? Why?
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When you took step one,
was it an intellectual acceptance or
was it more like an emotional acceptance?
The Big Book and the 12 and 12 describe the process of step 1 as:
utter defeat
bankruptcy
hopelessness and
hitting bottom
Why does it have to be this painful? (12 and 12, p. 24)
What did the first step accomplish for you?
What would you say to the new guy about step 1?
This week, the Recovered Podcast will begin the first week of a 12 week series of the 12 steps. On Tuesday, January 12, 2016, The Recovery Topic is Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.
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Call and answer the following question(s):
What does powerless mean to you?
What does unmanageable mean to you?
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Over the next 12 weeks, we will discuss our experience, strength, and hope regarding the 12 steps of recovery.
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The Big Book
The 12 and 12
This is the time of year when
Fear of Financial Insecurity can be stressful
The credit card bills from the holiday spending are on the way,
and now as a sober person,
we are supposed to pay them off.
The 9th step promises include:
Fear of people and of
economic insecurity will leave us.
The promise doesn’t say
financial insecurity will leave us,
it says the fear
of financial insecurity will leave us.
It implies that it is normal to have financial insecurity
we just don’t have to have the fear.
This has probably been the most difficult
part of recovery
my Fear
and fear specifically to my financial life
I can let go of controlling alcohol
I have a hard time letting go of financial fear
so how do we do this, this is what I’d like to explore tonight
But let’s start with some definitions
Let’s start with some basic understandings
Fear of people and of
economic insecurity will leave us.
What does this mean to you?
Why is fear dangerous to the alcoholic?
How does the program help with fear?
What does it mean to you to have financial insecurity without fear?
How does your higher power play a role here?
The 12 and 12 reads:
Upon entering A.A., the spectacle of years of waste threw us into panic.
Financial importance was no longer our principal aim;
we now clamored for material security.
Years of waste threw us in a panic….Can you relate to this experience?
What does financial importance mean to you?
How is clamoring for material security a bad thing in recovery?
The 12 and 12 reads:
Even when we re-established in our business,
terrible fears often continued to haunt us.
This made us misers and penny-pinchers all over again.
Complete financial security we must have — or else.
Thoughts, comments, experiences?
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We forgot that most alcoholics in A.A.
have an earning power considerably above average;
we forgot the immense good will of our brother A.A.’s
who were only too eager to help us to better jobs when we deserved them;
we forgot the actual or potential financial insecurity
of every human being in the world.
And, worst of all, we forgot God.
In money matters we had faith only in ourselves, and not too much of that.
Your thoughts on having faith in our sobriety,
but not in our financial matters?
Losing Financial Fears
Greed
possessiveness
pride
What steps, prayers, what tools of recovery help?
Happy New Year! Hope you are well and ready for the New Year.
On Tuesday, January 5, 2016, The Recovery Topic is Financial Insecurity
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Call and tell us and answer the following question:
What financial insecurity fears are (have) you experiencing (experienced)?
What recovery tools do you plan to use?
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