Attitudes and Limitations
“What we consider our greatest strengths can also be our greatest weaknesses.
Excessive pride in "being able to handle everything," for example, may result in our taking on other people's responsibilities. In "taking over," we often lessen another's desire to meet his or her own obligations.
A boastful "I'll do it myself!" attitude can also mask a desperate feeling of inadequacy. Having a constant drive to prove our wort... Read More

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  I recognize that I am helpless to overcome my addictions on my own.

  I know that I am nothing when compared to God.

  I realize that I must have child-like trust to overcome my addictions.

   I have no direction without God’s help.  I am just wandering in the dark wilderness, lost as a little child, needing assistance.  If I recognize that I am... Read More

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  I desire to stop participating in my addictions!  When I participate in my addictions, there is enmity toward God and those I love.  Enmity means, "hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition."  I know it is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over me.  I also know that pride is competetive in nature and that my will in competition to God's will allows desires, appetities, and passions to go unbridled. 

  I know I must be stripp... Read More

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  I admit that I, by myself, am powerless to overcome my addictions and that my life has become unmanageable. 

  My addictions have provided stimulation or numbed painful feelings or moods.  They have helped me avoid the problems I face, at least temporarily.  For a while I felt free of stress, fear, worry, loneliness, discouragement, pain, regret, or boredom.  I failed to recognize or admit that I had lost the ability to resist and abstain on my own.&... Read More

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London is eighty miles from my hometown and there is a good rail link, the fast train takes perhaps an hour and it beats getting into London by car and paying congestion charges.  However when there is a derailed freight train half way it takes three and a half hours.  We arrived at the Recovery day just in time for the break away meetings.  I was secretary for the women's meeting, there was just three of us, another woman had arrived earlier but had left because I wasn't there... Read More

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