Sunday, February 2nd
I began to work the Steps with my sponsor and stayed close to the program as if my life depended on it, which it did.
The Twelve Steps outline a simple program of action that may help us recover from sexual compulsion. All other tools of recovery help support working the Twelve Steps. In admitting our powerlessness and unmanageability over our compulsion, we learn the possibility of change. We may accept that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity and that we can trust our Higher Power to care for us while giving up our need to control.
Once we establish the foundations, we can review our lives, listing our resentments, fears, and harms that others did to us or we to them. We can share these with another sober person, be ready to allow our character defects to be lifted, and ask our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.
We restore relationships, making amends for the harms we did, including those to ourselves. We remain accountable for our words and actions and deepen the relationship with our Higher Power through prayer and meditation. By doing so, we may experience a spiritual awakening that enriches our lives. This helps us achieve peace and serenity and enables us to carry this message to the sexual compulsive who still suffers.
We become more present in our lives and connected to the wisdom within us.