Yesterday I presented the 1st Part of this article, Second Chance to Live – Action Steps Revisited – An Overview Part 1. In today’s article I am going to share a synopsis of the 12 Steps. Attending 12 Step support meetings, listening to members share their experience, strength and hope, working with a sponsor, working through the 12 Steps with a sponsor and through being honest … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2012
Second Chance to Live — Action Steps Revisited — An Overview Part 1
By Second Chance to Live
In yesterday’s article – Accepting Myself when Family and Friends Can Not Part 2 – I shared a link to an article -- Second Chance to Live -- Action Steps -- as an addendum to the article. I wrote this article -- Second Chance to Live -- Action Steps -- in May of 2008. I decided to share the article as an addendum in yesterday's article because the information has been and … [Read more...]
Accepting Myself when Family and Friends Can Not Part 2
By Second Chance to Live
In the event that you have not already read Part 1 of this article, please do so by clicking on the following link Accepting Myself when Family and Friends Can Not Part 1 Through my involvement with 12 step support group meeting, listening to other people’s experience, strength and hope, working with my sponsor and being honest with myself I started to heal emotionally and … [Read more...]
Accepting Myself when Family and Friends Can Not Part 1
By Second Chance to Live
Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to see that you decided to stop by to visit with me. You are always welcome around my table. As I have shared before, my traumatic brain injury occurred in 1967 when I was 10 years old. In 1967 there was nothing in the way of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. Consequently, once my external wounds healed … [Read more...]
Finding Hope in Our Powerlessness and Unmanageability Part 2
By Second Chance to Live
If you have not already read Part 1 of this article, please click here Finding Hope in Our Powerlessness and Unmanageability Part 1 In my experience, my experience with powerless, lapses into crazy making behavior and feelings of hopelessness all led me to a point of recognizing that I have little power over people, places and things. In the midst of my realization – that I … [Read more...]