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*janbear* · 06-09-2006, 12:00 PM

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bluidkiti
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: Working the Steps Again and Again

THE DOCTOR'S OPINION EDITED

Men and women take the 12 steps essentially because they like the effect
produced by them. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is
helpful, they realize after a time that they can differentiate the true from
the false. To them, their recovered alcoholic life seems the only normal
one. If they stop taking the steps, as so many do, they become restless,
irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of
ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few steps - steps they see
others taking with success. After they have succumbed to the desire to work
the steps again, and they pass through the well-known stages of recovery,
emerging happy, with a firm resolution not to let their program slip away
again. This is repeated over and over, and as this person experiences an
entire psychic change there is every hope of his recovery.

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*janbear* · 06-09-2006, 12:01 PM

Amen to this

06-09-2006, 12:00 PM	#1
janbear willing servant Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 14,184	Working the Steps Again and Again Message bluidkiti Administrator Age: 44 Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 7079 Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: Working the Steps Again and Again THE DOCTOR'S OPINION EDITED Men and women take the 12 steps essentially because they like the effect produced by them. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is helpful, they realize after a time that they can differentiate the true from the false. To them, their recovered alcoholic life seems the only normal one. If they stop taking the steps, as so many do, they become restless, irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few steps - steps they see others taking with success. After they have succumbed to the desire to work the steps again, and they pass through the well-known stages of recovery, emerging happy, with a firm resolution not to let their program slip away again. This is repeated over and over, and as this person experiences an entire psychic change there is every hope of his recovery. Received in email __________________ And this above all, to thine own self be true. And it must follow as night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. -Shakespeare For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7

06-09-2006, 12:01 PM	#2
janbear willing servant Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 14,184	Amen to this __________________ And this above all, to thine own self be true. And it must follow as night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. -Shakespeare For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7

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