Category: The 12 Setps

  • Family Secrets – Pain and Disappointment

    Principle 1: Realize I’m not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable. Being raised in a Christian family, when I first…

  • Coping skills learned as a child.

    As a kid I learned that the world is a dangerous place and the safest place was by myself. After all nobody else really cares for me anyway. I was the youngest child in a family where I had 5 siblings. When I came along my oldest brother had already left home, and my oldest…