What is your favorite Step?
Mine is probably the first step, because once I truly admitted that I was powerless over Alchol, it was the turning point for me in my recovery.
locknload2000
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(10/25/00 6:44 am) Reply
What is my fav. Step?
Hi John. Congrats on getting the link/site/page or whatever running. I admire your ability. I'm Steve M. from Brockton MA and I want to thank you for your efforts. Now to the question, which one is the fav.? Considering it took many runs through all of them to get this drunk on the beam I'll cop out and say 1-12. If you wish to pin me down I think step 5 was the most burden releaving and 1 was (is)the most necessary (for me). No I'm not quite cleared up yet But I am sober and I have the program and I don't drink so things aren't too bad. Thanks again, Steve
Steps
Hi read about your site from the coffee pot. I was surprised, : ,to see you had a site! Cool. I personally take step 1 as my favorite. I have to admit I did step one the most too. LOL I finally got it right though. Good luck with your site.
Hoss123 Registered User
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(10/25/00 7:55 pm) Reply
Re: Steps
For me it's the first step as well, without it there are no other steps...but once you've got the first step, you have to continue 2-12 in a timely fashion, or you will lose the first step, i.e. drink
insane sonia
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(10/27/00 3:43 am) Reply
favourite steps
I believe step one to be the most essential step but I like step three, I am not sure I work step three strictly by the book as it says it is merely a decision, but I love at looking at what is possible for me to achieve today towards my goals, and then handing the rest to my hp, so far my hp hasn't let me down, so long as I am honest about what effort I can put into a problem. Then I don't have to worry.
Favorite step
HONESTY:The intent or lack of intent to deceive ones self or others.My most rewarding step is when I was finaly able to conceide to my inner most self I am an Alcoholic! This was my first step in recovery!
Re: What is your favorite Step?
Maria, if you're here please e-mail me at jdismukes@excite.com, I want to help or at least listen to what you have to say.
doublewinner
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(10/30/00 9:59 am) Reply
Favorite step?
I hope I don't come across as a smart aleck when I say that the only step that matters is the one I am on right now. Then again, my "favorite" is probably step three. Step one keeps me away from physical or chemical solutions to my problems, but abstinence alone doesn't make me happy. It is only when I let go of my self-will that I have any serenity.
Sharon F
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(10/31/00 9:17 am) Reply
Favorite Step
Glad to have found this site. Thanks!!! My favorite Step is Step 11, continous meditation is what keeps me here. After working the rest of the steps to the best of my ability several times as more is revealed.. I find that if I don't keep Step ll on top, I can forget the rest of the steps.. and that can lead to real trouble.. Haven't had to drink but sanity was NOT visable to me or anyone else..
Hi - My name is Lee and I'm an alcoholic. I just found this site, and think it's great! Thank you!!
It's hard to pick a favorite step, but one that was extremely important to me was Step #3. Once I figured out that there was a God and it wasn't me, it was a relief that I could turn my will and my life over to Him and let Him do the steering. I'd made a mess of things!
Steps 4 & 5 also helped pull me out of my incredible selfishness by making me aware that I thought the world revolved around ME. Even tho' doing inventories can be frightening & exhausting, I feel free---cleansed, I guess---after doing one.
Thanks again for a great site!
Sanders
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(11/1/00 11:52 am) Reply
Favorite step
I am very definately a real alcholic and my name is Sanders. There is no doubt at all in my mind as to which step is my favorite. Step 11 is becase it keeps me in the "now", and I don't have to constantly b emaking more amends to people if I use and allow God to direct my thinking each day, and have the "guts" to do it.
Kokomoro
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(11/3/00 8:34 pm) Reply
Favorite Step
Being a re-tread, I pick Step 12. The reason is because I never got this step in my first time in, and now that I have, it is totally amazing. The only way I got to Step 12, though, was by a pretty miraculous spiritual experience or awakening of sorts during working Steps 2 & 3 this time. I suddenly became aware of the fact that I had to believe that God would help me let go of my insanity of fear and depression that had kept me sick for so long, because I had to get well so I could help others get well. It was such a sudden rush of realization the morning this all came to me that the only way to try & explain it is to run it all together like that! So, it was through Steps 2&3 that catapulted me through the rest of the steps and into the one that I never had gotten in my former sobriety; Step 12! The service work I do today keeps me sober more than anything else, because it keeps me out of living up in my head, and lands me in my heart and on my feet, planted firmly on God's green earth!
Thanks for a cool site & the invite, John!
Corinne B. - Camino, CA - from the CoffeePot at StayingCyber.org
drdena Registered User
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(11/12/00 1:26 pm) Reply
Re: Favorite Step
i can't say that i have a favorite step- the first three as a group are the foundation for me- the 10th & 11th are necessary for me on a daily basis to keep sober and recovering-the most important for me was and is step one-i can't do anything until i get out of denial and start getting into solutions
Step one
The biggest and most important step for me has been admitting that I was powerless over alcohol, although I already knew that my life had become unmanageable. At first I thought that if I sorted my life out then my drinking would not be a problem...it took a while to realise that alcohol was the problem. But the single biggest step has been accepting my alcoholism...once over that hurdle the rest of the programme is becoming possible.
Re: What is your favorite Step?
By far it would be the 3rd step . I think it means recovery vs. being dry. A transformative step when followed by the book
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: ,to see you had a site! Cool. I personally take step 1 as my favorite. I have to admit I did step one the most too. LOL I finally got it right though. Good luck with your site.
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