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. Over the past 20 days or so I have written and published a 10 part series: Learning to Trust.
With in that series I shared with you a series you of awareness’s that brought me to a place of surrender. In that place of surrender, I shared with you that I was encouraged to complete a 4th step inventory to identify patterns in my relationships.
Through completing a 5th Step with my sponsor I began to realize what impeded my relationships and my inability to trust.
My 4th and 5th Step initiated a whole new way of living for me. My 4th and 5th Step helped me to realize that I set myself up to experience abandonment because of my inability to trust. My 4th and 5th Step empowered me to own my feelings of alienation and isolation.
By owning my experience of abandonment as well as my feelings of alienation and isolation — rather than looking to blame anyone for my experience: including myself –- I found hope. I found that hope became real to me when I realized that I had the power to choose.
Hope became practical and real to me when I realized that I had the power to choose.
I began to experience hope because I realized that I could change the way in which I experienced life.
Please read Part 2 for context. Thank you.
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hannahnow says
Good for you for posting this. I am a retired counselor as well I grew up with an alcoholic father, then moved on to troubled men. Anyway, all is good now. Bless you for helping others by sharing your experiences!
P.S. I struggled for years with the powerlessness step until I finally understood what it was all about. Thank God for the 12 Steps!
Hannah
secondchancetolive says
Hi Hannah,
Thank you for taking the time to write to me. I am honored by your kindness. Thank you. I agree with you. Thank God for the 12 steps as they give us a way out and the courage to no longer be alone. Thank God also that although we are powerless, we are not helpless because we do not have to figure “it” out on our own. Like I have heard it said, it works if you work it, so work it because you are worth it.
Thank you again for taking the time to write. Please let me know if I may be of service to you.
Have a simply phenomenal week and my God bless both you and your family Hannah. By the way, I really like your name.
Craig