All daily inspirations can be found in the book Sex and Porn Addiction Healing and Recovery. Used here with permission of the author.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.
For many recovering sex and porn addicts, Step 11 is relatively easy, especially if they arrived in recovery with an existing spiritual practice. In such cases, a renewed effort in that discipline is usually the way to go. The exception to this occurs when a person no longer trusts or believes in that discipline. This sometimes happens when the ‘religion of one’s childhood’ has a scary, judgmental, punishing form of God, or when the people associated with that religion did not practice what they preached. Others arrive in recovery with no sense of spiritual connection. Either way, if you find yourself searching for a Higher Power of some sort with no idea where to look, Step 11 can feel daunting. But it needn’t. The only things required for success are open-mindedness and willingness, and by the time most of us reach Step 11 we are more than a little bit familiar with these tenets.
Task for Today
Open your mind to the idea of a Higher Power, even if you have no idea what that might look like.