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Episode #180 - Friday The Checkup: Personal Responsibility

If there is anything that I want to help you understand is how we must take responsibility for our addiction, the things we did behind it and our personal recovery over it. Lacking personal responsibility kept me from becoming well when it was sorely indicated. I must now take full responsibility for my addiction and other related behaviors and then make a commitment to myself to become well. Unless I take personalresponsibility, it is always going to be up to someone else or something else to do for me what I should be doing for myself. That is why step one is so necessary. Every succeeding step in recovery offers me the opportunity to take further personal responsibility. As I take each step in recovery, I am getting closer to the type of daily responsibility I must take to sustain the recovery I have been given, to grow in that recovery and have a lifelong opportunity to be in recovery ODAAT for the rest of my life. This is what personal responsibility affords me. I hope you join me on this journey.

Remember, it does not matter where we start it matters where we end up. Since this is about the journey not the destination where I desire to end up is on the successful end of another day. Now, success is a relative term usually defined by the person experiencing their day. Where I end up today will set the stage for where I start tomorrow. Where I start tomorrow will help determine where I end up tomorrow and so on and so on and so on. Never lose sight of where we are at.

Episode #179 - Tuesday The Fix: Step Eight - Repairing the Damage

This step can be so challenging for so many of us. Like step one and step four, step eight calls us to be objectively introspective. We must see things that we did in a light that is not clouded by pride or fear. One of the most important things to remember is that this is merely a list. The second most important thing is the word “willing“ that is found in the wording of the step. As we previously discussed Willy Nash is a key, that when inserted, the door opens up even of itself. Do not be discouraged by the personal inventory that this step requires, but rather What does step has the potential to do. Step eight is an avenue to forgiveness. It is part of every plan of recovery. Forgiveness will always play a vital role.

Please learn more about my approach to the Steps from our podcast episode from December of last year titled Steps of Life.

Episode #178 – Friday The Checkup: Prayer Power

Prayer is a devout petition to God or an object of worship. It is a spiritual communion with God or an object of worship, as in supplication, thanksgiving, adoration, or confession. It has been referred to as a formula or sequence of words used in or appointed for praying. It is further defined as a religious observance, either public or private, consisting wholly or mainly of prayer. Prayer is something that most everyone at some time relies on in some way. Prayer is one of the universal actions that exists. St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and environment could be viewed as the original Earth Day advocate. Francis' devotion to God was expressed through his love for all of God's creation.

When we consider what St. Francis is saying, we are encouraged to set self aside we will then grow in ways that we always hoped. May God bless you on your journey.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace!
That where there is hatred, I may bring love.
That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness.
That where there is discord, I may bring harmony.
That where there is error, I may bring truth.
That where there is doubt, I may bring faith.
That where there is despair, I may bring hope.
That where there are shadows, I may bring light.
That where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted.
To understand, than to be understood.
To love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.

Episode #177 – Tuesday The Fix: Step Seven - Humility is Key

As all the previous steps, this step covers a specific area of need. Step Seven relies on Step Six as do all the Steps rely on the previous one.

Humility; the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank:
Him; Used as a direct or indirect object:
Remove; to go away; depart; disappear, to take away:
Shortcoming a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability.

We must use our increased humility as a stepping-stone to further enrich our recovery. Step Seven does just that.

Episode #176 – Friday The Checkup: Just Keep Swimming

Redirecting our thinking is critical to our recovered life and should be a constant. If not, negative thoughts will hijack our moments which can steal our day.

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Episode #175 – Tuesday The Fix: Step Six – Ready or Not It Must Be Done

The defects are the target of this Step and entirely is the degree by which we are ready to remove them. I invite you to look at the definitions of these words to see how they resonate with you.

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Episode #174 – Friday The Checkup: How do I Identify

I must view myself as one deserving recovery and healthy relationships. Until I see myself in this light, I will not do the things necessary to transform into this person.

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Episode #173 – Tuesday The Fix: Step Five – Letting Go

Granting someone entrance into my life was so refreshing. Step 5 is the first step that directly involves another person. This is so important because I am becoming more accountable in a tangible sense. My active addiction was brought on and deepened by my lack of accountability. The first four steps do not require accountability the way step five does.

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Episode #172 – Friday The Checkup: Personal Power

One of the most remarkable things about recovery is personal power. One of our primary missions in life is to find, discover and elevate our own personal power.

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Episode #21 - Monday The Fix - Becoming Your Best Version

A universal approach to becoming the best possible version of self.