Recent Posts Tagged With '12 steps'

• I don't go anywhere fast

  Posted on Tuesday October 30th, 2007 at 09:16 in lust, surrender, 12 steps

  You and me we're goin' nowhere slowlyAnd we've gotta get away from the pastThere's nothin' wrong with goin' nowhere, babyBut we should be goin' nowhere fastThis is the problem with addiction , not finding contentment in the place that you are. Not wa...

• Dealing with expectations and lust

  Posted on Sunday October 14th, 2007 at 21:56 in expectations, lust, surrender, 12 steps

  A little advanced warning, this may be a bit long but hopefully I won't ramble too much. MaybeYesterday the odds were stackedIn favor of my expectationsFlyin' above the restNever fallin' from the nestTuesday came and went and nowI'm in a little sit...

• Do I really have to start over????

  Posted on Thursday August 9th, 2007 at 10:12 in recovery, lust, 12 steps, resentment, sexaholic

  I hate being an addict! I really don't think you understand that I HATE being an addict. You see, the problem is that I think that I have this under control and have 8 months of sobriety under my belt (my drug of choice is fantasy with being lusted a...

• Step Six

  Posted on Friday July 20th, 2007 at 11:28 in addiction, recovery, lust, 12 steps, step six

  Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.As an addict I can say that I felt I was at this place for a long time before I started working the steps. Some addicts don't want to get better and only want to learn to control...

• Step Five

  Posted on Tuesday July 17th, 2007 at 10:35 in recovery, lust, confession, 12 steps, sexaholic, sexaholism, step five

  Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.Forgive me Father for I am a worm. This is a dangerous and crucial step for recovery. By the time the addict gets to here they should/need to have lots of suppor...

• Step Four

  Posted on Monday July 9th, 2007 at 09:58 in pornography, lust, 12 steps, step four, sexaholic, sexaholism

  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.Now we get to some hard work. In some ways this could easily become a list of faults and failings and nothing more. I think that would be a mistake, a missed opportunity for growth. I am not...

• Step Three

  Posted on Wednesday July 4th, 2007 at 09:25 in recovery, Step Three, confession, 12 steps, higher power, sexaholic

  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.At times it seems that the journey to recovery requires what seems like superhuman abilities to me, the addict. Step three is a place to learn that we don't h...

• Journal 20070701

  Posted on Sunday July 1st, 2007 at 22:00 in addiction, alcoholism, recovery, lust, intimacy, 12 steps, step one, sa, sexaholic

  Tonight, I went to my weekly meeting. Tonight one of our members gave his first step. I know that this was hard for him to do. It took up most of the meeting and his recounting encompassed probably over 30 hand-written pages. This step was a reco...

• Journal 20070628

  Posted on Thursday June 28th, 2007 at 12:09 in recovery, sobriety, purpose, lust, songs, intimacy, 12 steps, sexaholic, sexaholism

  One of my favorite songs from adolescence is For Crying out Loud as performed by MeatLoaf. It still to this day strikes a chord in my heart. However, as I grow and mature I have come to realize that it describes the addict in me and my true self. It...

• Lust Versus Intimacy

  Posted on Tuesday June 26th, 2007 at 11:09 in addiction, recovery, pornography, lust, fellowship, intimacy, 12 steps, step one, sa, sexaholic, sexaholism

  One of the biggest things addiction to lust, more commonly know as Sex Addicts or Sexaholics, does to a person is it makes them incapable of sharing with anyone else who they really are. It could be due to embarrassment, shame, guilt or a variety of...

• The road is long....

  Posted on Monday June 25th, 2007 at 10:17 in sobriety, accountability, lust, fellowship, intimacy, 12 steps, sa

  I don't know if any of you have the song running through your head that I do right now:He Ain't HeavyThe road is long, With many a winding turn, That leads us to who knowswhere, Who knows where, But I'm strong, Strong enough to carry him, He ain'thea...

• Step Two

  Posted on Sunday June 17th, 2007 at 18:28 in 12 steps, step two

  Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.Again, I find two things laid at my feet in this second step. The first thing is something that should be obvious from the condition the addict finds themselves.As an addi...

• Step One: My life is unmanageable due to what?

  Posted on Monday June 11th, 2007 at 00:06 in lust, intimacy, 12 steps, step one

  We admitted that we were powerless over lust -- that our lives had becomeunmanageable.This step has two parts that are very distinct in it. When we begin this process it is out of an admission that our lives are unmanageable, but first our lives hav...