Saturday, February 1st, 2025
Working Step 2
As sex and porn addicts, we fool ourselves into believing we don’t need help. Thoroughly working Step 2—coming to believe that a power greater than ourselves will restore us...
Tag Archives: 12 Steps
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Sharing Your Step One Inventories
Letting go of secrets gives you the freedom to move forward with a different, better life. For most recovering sex and porn addicts, creating powerlessness and unmanageability inventories is... -
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025Working Step One: The Unmanageability Inventory
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more consequences and failing to understand that we, not others, are at fault. One way to measure the unmanageability of... -
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025Working Step One: The Powerlessness Inventory
Step 1 reinforces our ‘moment of clarity,’ cementing our desire for recovery. Being powerless means we have lost control over our sexual behaviors. We engage in these behaviors compulsively,... -
Wednesday, January 1st, 2025The Need to Work Step One
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In 12-Step sexual recovery meetings, we often hear discussion about ‘hitting bottom’ and the resultant ‘moment of clarity’... -
Sunday, December 29th, 2024
Demystify the 12 Steps by Talking to Other Recovering Addicts
Addiction thrives in isolation. Recovery thrives in company. There are as many ways to work the 12 steps as there are recovering addicts. How we choose to work the... -
Saturday, December 28th, 2024Step 12: Living the Principles
With integrity, you do the right thing, so you have no guilt or shame about your actions. The work of Step 12 can be broken down into two parts:... -
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024Step 12: Assess for the Spiritual Awakening
By doubting, we come to the question. By seeking, we come to the truth. Step 12 says, “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we... -
Sunday, November 24th, 2024Step 11 is a Unique and Personal Journey
Search, no matter what situation you are in. There is no right or wrong way to work Step 11. In fact, there are as many ways to work Step...