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2/23/2012 0 Comments Recording For February 23, 2012Step 1- “The Doctor’s Opinion” pg 4 (xxviii)
Words: Ideals, cynical, accepted, encouraged, rehabilitation, altruistic, essentially, elusive, injurious, restless, irritable, discontented. 1. Make a circle, (think like a clock) How much time in your life do you need to devote to God, sobriety, husband/wife/children, Step 1 program, sponsees, community, work. Put what you think you can devote to your Big Book Step Study. 2. How are you doing with your quiet time? How has it developed since you first started? Is there anything you feel is lacking and you need help or accountability put in? 3. How would you rate your acceptance and encouragement to new people who come into your step one fellowship? How would you rate your acceptance and encouragement of someone who has been in recovery a long time and keeps slipping and sliding? How would you rate your acceptance and encouragement of yourself when you fall short of what you think you should be doing? 4. Write one an experience you had with being restless, irritable, and discontented. 5. Write about the lie we tell ourselves that our addictive substance is going to give us ease and comfort.
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2/23/2012 0 Comments Recording For February 23, 2012Step 1- “The Doctor’s Opinion” pg 4 (xxviii)
Words: Ideals, cynical, accepted, encouraged, rehabilitation, altruistic, essentially, elusive, injurious, restless, irritable, discontented. 1. Make a circle, (think like a clock) How much time in your life do you need to devote to God, sobriety, husband/wife/children, Step 1 program, sponsees, community, work. Put what you think you can devote to your Big Book Step Study. 2. How are you doing with your quiet time? How has it developed since you first started? Is there anything you feel is lacking and you need help or accountability put in? 3. How would you rate your acceptance and encouragement to new people who come into your step one fellowship? How would you rate your acceptance and encouragement of someone who has been in recovery a long time and keeps slipping and sliding? How would you rate your acceptance and encouragement of yourself when you fall short of what you think you should be doing? 4. Write one an experience you had with being restless, irritable, and discontented. 5. Write about the lie we tell ourselves that our addictive substance is going to give us ease and comfort. 2/16/2012 0 Comments Recording For February 16. 2012Reading: Big Book pg 4
words: phenomenon, powerlessness,suffices, frothy, temperate, craving 1. What is your step 1 fellowship? Do you have a home group? If not, why? Do you have a step one sponsor? If not, why? 2. Are you a chronic addict? Do you have the manifestation of an allergy? 3 Have you experienced the phenomenon of craving for your addiction? 3. Do you know people in your step 1 fellowship that this craving does not happen to? 4. What substances set up the manifestation of an allergy that sets off the phenomenon of craving in your life? 5. How has your addiction allowed you to lose your self confidence? 2/9/2012 0 Comments Recording For February 9, 2012Words: synthetic, chronic, epoch
Questions: 1. Write abut the threefold illness, the physical side, the emotional side, and the spiritual side. What is the progression of getting well? 2. Get a copy or pamphlet of the “tools” or “plan of action”. 3. What are your practical applications that you need to do everyday and what are the practical applications that you do everyday? 4. What were you like before recovery? How did you find recovery? What are you like today? Write your story in the three parts. 5. What does unselfishness mean to you and what does it look like in your life? 6. Have you established a quiet time? What does it look like and are you doing it no matter what? 7. Were you a hopeless addict? 2/2/2012 0 Comments Recording For February 2, 2012Words: allergy, altruistic, imperative, paramount, afflicted, masterly, moral
Soul Work Questions: Question 1 – Why is the doctor’s theory that we have an allergy to ______ (fill in your addiction) needs to be of interest to us? Question 2 – Can you explain the allergy to someone? b) Does this explanation make good sense to me? c) Does it explain many things for which you cannot otherwise account? Question 3 – Write about your very first day, about your very first week, and write about how you went from very jittery and befogged. Question 4 – Dr. Silkworth tells us doctors and psychology are not successful and why I need my step one fellowship – why I can’t just depend on doctors and therapy. And why I need my step one fellowship. Write on that. |
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