Friends in Recovery

ISBN 0-941405-12-5

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From the introduction:

“The 12 Steps for Adult Children is a personal guide to understanding the spiritual power of the Twelve Steps. This material is primarily for adults whose childhoods were negatively affected by a less-than-nurturing environment. This environment often resulted when adults responsible for care were influenced by substance abuse, emotional problems, or compulsive behaviors. The Twelve Steps offer a way to grow beyond the harmful effects of a troubled home environment.”

“When used as intended, the steps are a profoundly powerful process for allowing God to heal damaged emotions. The 12 Steps for Adult Children is a spiritual tool that helps us regain balance and order, and leads us to improved health and increased happiness through a renewed relationship with our Higher Power.”

Starting the journey:

“This book provides a practical way to use the Twelve Steps as a recovery tool, and to fully integrate the steps as an ongoing part of our recovery journey. The book helps us to identify and deal with issues that are interfering with our lives. If we approach this work seriously, we will experience recovery that nurtures physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.”

Working with a recovery partner:

“A recovery partner is similar ro a mentor or sponsor. This person can be a role model for learning how to enjoy a better quality of life through the love of a Higher Power and the wisdom of the program.”

Benefits of a recovery partner:

“Many benefits result from working with a recovery partner. Some of them are:

• Partners provide a non-threatening system of mutual accountability. For example, a partner can agree to call the other for support and prayer in abstaining from a harmful habit.
• Partners focus on each other’s specific area of need each time they meet. Openly sharing thoughts and feelings helps to clarify needs in problem areas. This contribules to one’s freedom from the past. The focus is to live honestly in the present with realistic expectations.
• Partners encourage one another to progress from a state of physical, emotional, and spiritual sickness to wholeness of life. It is normal to feel discomfort when unhealthy familiar behaviors are being transformed. Healthy behavior is a result of doing our Higher Power’s will.
• Partners aid one another by being sensitive to personal and relationship needs. When partners openly share their faults with one another, honesty, trust, and healing occur. It is not appropriate to focus on a particular behavior and lose the value of the moment or the point of what is shared.”

Betty Clare Moffatt

ISBN 1-885171-11-0

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From Using Soulwork:
“This book is meant to be a companion to you along your soul’s journey. The heartfelt personal stories are designed to help you access your own inner story, your own connections to Spirit. It is your book. These are your soul qualities. You can approach it in an orderly fashion, working through each week of the year. Or you can dip into this book at random, allowing your inner self to guide you to what you need next in your soul’s progress. You can write it, question it, ruminate in it, and memorize its passages. You can use it as a daybook, or start all over with it the following year. This book is a gentle companion, a fellow traveler, a friendly explorer.”

The main body of the book is divided into 52 weeks. Each week uses one of the following subjects for the year.

Acceptance, action, balance, clarity, cleanliness, compassion, congruency, courage, creativity,

Devotion, endurance, enthusiasm, faith, fidelity,

Flexibility, forgiveness, frugality, generosity, gentleness, goodness, gratitude, harmony, honesty,

Hope, integrity, intuition, joy, kindness, learning, love, nobility, patience, peace, perseverance, power,

receiving, resilience, respectfulness, responsibility,

self-discipline, self-reliance, serenity, service, simplicity, solitude, talents, tenderness, tolerance, trust, will, wisdom.

A part of one of the chapters: from the chapter about forgiveness:

“Seven Steps to Forgiveness:

1) Recognition and acknowledgment

We recognize a problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion that alerts us to the need to forgive. We acknowledge the problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion that needs forgiveness.

2) Desire, definition, and decision

We desire to forgive. We define the parameters of the problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion. We then make a clear and conscious decision to forgive.

3) Meditation and prayer

We go within and with prayerful inquiry and an open, receptive mind, we ask for truth, help, and guidance in the forgiveness situation. We ask how best to proceed to heal the problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion requiring forgiveness.

4) Inner and outer action

We act on the guidance we have received in prayer and meditation. We do what needs to be done to clear up the problem, (etc) that requires forgiveness.

5) Surrender and release

After taking appropriate action in the outer world, we release the

Entire the entire situation into the hands of our Creator. We ask for

Highest good of all concerned. We ask, “Thy will, not mine, be

done.”

6) Understanding and awareness

We look for an increased understanding of the dynamics that led to the problem, (etc) that required our forgiveness. We look for the spiritual lesson. We determine to go forward in forgiveness with

Increased awareness.

7) Healing and change

We accept that the situation has now changed. We accept that the lesson has been learned. We choose to look at the situation, and the world differently. We welcome healing and change through the process of forgiveness. We allow the energy of healing and change to spill over into other areas of our lives. We are changed. We give thanks.

Then, several questions for this subject are given. Also a quotation relating to the subject is included:

“Allow yourself to pray. Just as the many times human beings find themselves in circumstances where the hurt or the pain is so great that on their own power they cannot forgive, it is enough that they pray to be given the grace, the perception, the elevated Light that will allow them to forgive.” Gary Zukav (Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul)

Friends in Recovery

ISBN 0-941405-12-5

Amazon link

From the introduction:

“The 12 Steps for Adult Children is a personal guide to understanding the spiritual power of the Twelve Steps. This material is primarily for adults whose childhoods were negatively affected by a less-than-nurturing environment. This environment often resulted when adults responsible for care were influenced by substance abuse, emotional problems, or compulsive behaviors. The Twelve Steps offer a way to grow beyond the harmful effects of a troubled home environment.”

“When used as intended, the steps are a profoundly powerful process for allowing God to heal damaged emotions. The 12 Steps for Adult Children is a spiritual tool that helps us regain balance and order, and leads us to improved health and increased happiness through a renewed relationship with our Higher Power.”

Starting the journey:

“This book provides a practical way to use the Twelve Steps as a recovery tool, and to fully integrate the steps as an ongoing part of our recovery journey. The book helps us to identify and deal with issues that are interfering with our lives. If we approach this work seriously, we will experience recovery that nurtures physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.”

Working with a recovery partner:

“A recovery partner is similar ro a mentor or sponsor. This person can be a role model for learning how to enjoy a better quality of life through the love of a Higher Power and the wisdom of the program.”

Benefits of a recovery partner:

“Many benefits result from working with a recovery partner. Some of them are:

• Partners provide a non-threatening system of mutual accountability. For example, a partner can agree to call the other for support and prayer in abstaining from a harmful habit.
• Partners focus on each other’s specific area of need each time they meet. Openly sharing thoughts and feelings helps to clarify needs in problem areas. This contribules to one’s freedom from the past. The focus is to live honestly in the present with realistic expectations.
• Partners encourage one another to progress from a state of physical, emotional, and spiritual sickness to wholeness of life. It is normal to feel discomfort when unhealthy familiar behaviors are being transformed. Healthy behavior is a result of doing our Higher Power’s will.
• Partners aid one another by being sensitive to personal and relationship needs. When partners openly share their faults with one another, honesty, trust, and healing occur. It is not appropriate to focus on a particular behavior and lose the value of the moment or the point of what is shared.”

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ISBN 0-941405-12-5

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