All Addictions
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9/29/2016 0 Comments Recording For September 29, 2016(week 248) 29 September 2016 12 Step Study Big Book All Addictions workshop
To join the members list, be sent the soul work and/or if you would like a buddy, contact: [email protected] 8am EST Tuesdays workshop (same tel. no.) callback: 641 715 3900 pin 298913# Date for your diary: 8am EST Tuesday October 11 2016 The group will fulfill Stephanie’s long-held goal to study the end of the Big Book starting with: To The Wives. She says: ‘We have had a beautiful very devoted group studying the biographies of Dr Bob and Bill W.. And I encourage you all to join us in this study of the Big Book.’ If you would like to contact Stephanie: [email protected] Please send donations towards the cost of the website to. Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 or via Pay Pal on the website: 12stepstudyworkshop.com (click on Thursday). A A 12 x 12 Step 8 Page 79. Soul work Look up: extricate ‘Since defective relations with other human beings has nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable rewards than this one.’ Q1. Can you think of how this applies to you? [All of our problems always boil down to how we were relating to others] Q2. Go back to penultimate paragraph page 79 and write on the following: a) ’This attitude, (that we never harmed anyone when drinking) is the end result of purposeful forgetting. It is an attitude which can only be changed by a deep and honest search of our motives and actions.’ b) Do we have the willingness to extricate from this search the amends we need to make? c) Is it the case that these unresolved issues ‘…have actually given our emotions violent twists which have since discolored our personalities and altered our lives for the worse.’
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9/22/2016 0 Comments Recording For September 22, 2016Week #244
> Step 8 > September 22, 2016 > > Twelve & Twelve > Page 78, > > Look up: “Woes” > > 1) Make a list (hopefully short, but) of everyone that comes to your mind that you cannot forgive. Do a turnaround on them. > Now, include how your unforgiveness affects your pocketbook, self esteem, pride, sex, etc. > > 2) Write out the following sentence: “If we are now about to ask forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn’t we start out by forgiving them, one and all?” Rewrite this 3 different times during the week, and see how it changes as you bring it to God each time. > > 3) How do we feel about this sentence: “Why, we cried, shouldn’t bygones be bygones?” Write on it. > > 4) What constitutes sober behavior for me today? 9/15/2016 0 Comments Recording For September 15, 2016 Week #243 Twelve & Twelve, page 77-78 Look up: “vigorous”, “unsparing” 1) Write on this goal of recovery (page 77, paragraph 2): “Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership and brother/sisterhood with all men and women…” a. Is that your goal? b.How are you doing in achieving this? (Good, badly, doing well, etc.) c.What action plan do you need to do to live in this state described above? 2) Circle “accurate and unsparing survey” (second paragraph, pg 77) and write in the margin “To be carried over to step 10″ (week 244) September 8 2016 12 Step Study Big Book All Addictions workshop
Group membership: There are no requirements for membership of this group. To join the members list, be sent the soul work and/or you would like a buddy, contact [email protected] 8am EST Tuesdays workshop (same tel. no.) Callback: 641 715 3900 pin 298913# Nearing the end of studying Bill W’s biography ’Pass It On’ The date to be announced when the group shortly begins to read the stories at the back of the Big Book starting with To The Wives. If you would like to contact Stephanie [email protected] Donations are needed towards the cost of the website. Please send to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 soul work Big Book Into Action. The Promises Pages 83:4 and 84:1 ‘If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us – sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. Starting 83:3 as said last week this gives you very clear cut directions.’ look up these words: painstaking serenity extravagant materialize Q1. What did you learn today about the Promises? Q2. Where are the Promises coming through in your life? Q3. And where is God showing you that you need to bring certain areas to Him? (Week 203) September 1, 2016 – Thursday Big Book Step Study
Group membership There are no requirements for membership of this group. You may not be on amends (where we are) you may be dealing with step one. That is fine. All of these steps support one another so if you are still on step 4 you can be listening to step 9 and it doesn’t matter. It is like step 9 supports step 4 or step 1. Or you may be all done with steps 8 and 9 and you can still come, because step 9 supports living in steps 10, 11 and 12. I know I will never lose my need of doing steps 1-12. So you can be guaranteed that I am going to be taking you through the steps for the rest of my life. And you can choose to come or not to come. It is up to you. To join the members list, be sent the soul work and/or you would like a buddy, contact [email protected] 8am EST Tuesdays workshop (same tel. no.) Callback: 641 715 3900 pin 298913# Nearing the end of studying Bill W’s biography ’Pass It On’ . The group will next read the stories at the back of the Big Book. If you would like to contact Stephanie [email protected] Donations are needed towards the cost of the website. Please send to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 Freedom from obsession comes at a price and the price: constant vigilance. We cannot rest on our laurels. Today’s reading: BB (4th ed.) P. 83 beginning para 3 – p.84 end of full para 1 “They will always materialize if we work for them.” We’re currently in Steps 8 and 9; they are hard to separate. Step 8 is the approach position to making amends, to people we have hurt or harmed, the ‘GETTING READY’ stage. Step 9 is the actual ACTION of making amends. P.83 para 3 is FULL of direction on how to approach doing amends. Remember: BE HUMBLE! But, ‘As G-d’s people we STAND ON OUR FEET; we don’t crawl before anyone.’ P. 83 para 4 is chock full of the Eighth Step promises with each new sentence. Steps 1-8 get us ready to be at Step 9. SOUL WORK: Look up: (p.83) postpone/ delay/ sensible/ tactful/ considerate/ humble/ servile/ scraping (p.84) extravagant/ materialize What is the “work” we must do for the Step 8 promises to materialize? Getting past our strong feelings of ‘why should I make amends to them? Look how they hurt me!’ – by naming and claiming what is ours to claim ( i.e. negative actions, character defects) and putting the intellect over the emotions. Doing so will also help us to not pick up another, different addiction in an effort to fill our ‘God hole’. Rather, we must do the work in our Quiet Time, of going to God and asking, in our dis-ease, “what do I have to do to make things right?” This IS hard work; working through our character defects, bringing them to God in QT and praying on them for God to show us, clearly, what we must know and do to correct our part. We live IN COMMUNITY and we look for esteem. So to see our part and not wait for the other party to apologize IS the ‘hard work’. |
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