Tag Archives: Step 1

  • Sharing Your Step One Inventories
    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...
  • Working Step One: The Unmanageability Inventory
    Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

    Working 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...
  • Working Step One: The Powerlessness Inventory
    Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

    Working 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,...
  • The Need to Work Step One
    Wednesday, January 1st, 2025

    The 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’...
  • The ‘Loss of Control’
    Monday, October 21st, 2024

    The ‘Loss of Control’

    The easiest way to find Heaven is to slowly back away from Hell. As active sex and porn addicts, we lose control over our ability to not engage in...
  • Working Step 1 – The Powerlessness Inventory
    Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

    Working Step 1 – 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,...