Day 90 – Step Work Be prayerful as you consider ways to serve, seeking always to be led by the Holy Ghost. If you are willing, you will find many opportunities to share the spiritual principles you have learned. You will find ways to share your testimony with others and opportunities to serve them in […]
How Losing Myself in the Service of Others Helps in Addiction Recovery
Day 89 – Step Work SERVICE KEY PRINCIPLE: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, share this message with others and practice these principles in all you do. Service will help you grow in the light of the Spirit throughout the rest of your life. In step 10, […]
The Power of Prayer In The Moment of Temptation
Day 88 – Step Work Come unto the Father in the name of Jesus Christ for direction and power through private prayer and meditation; receive and study your patriarchal blessing Over the course of recovery, many of us learned to arise early and seek a period of quiet solitude for study and prayer. If you […]
The Plan of Happiness & Recovery from Addiction
Day 87 – Step Work As you work through step 11, you will come to realize even more that through the Holy Ghost you will receive knowledge or revelation of the Father’s will for you. Through the Atonement, you will have the power (or grace) to carry out the will of the Father. You will […]
Scripture Study & Recovery from Addiction
Day 86 – Step Work If you were like us, before you began to recover you thought hope, joy, peace, and fulfillment would come from an earthly source. Whether this source was alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, dishonest spending, unhealthy eating, or codependency—whatever your particular addiction was—your effort was to get by in a world where […]
Submitting My Life and Will to God One Day at a Time
Day 85 – Step Work You will continue to make mistakes as you interact with others, but a commitment to step 10 is a commitment to take responsibility for mistakes. If you examine your thoughts and actions each day and resolve them, negative thoughts and feelings will not increase until they threaten your abstinence. You […]
Continuing to Take Inventory
Day 84 – Step Work As you pay attention to your thoughts and feelings, you can also discover any negative beliefs you still hold. Ask your Father in Heaven to remove these. In taking step 10, you will no longer have to resort to justifying, rationalizing, or blaming anything or anyone. Your goal will be […]
The Start of Steps 10, 11, and 12
Today I start something I’ve never done before – Steps 10, 11, and 12. When I was in recovery before, or at least when I was sober before, I stopped working the steps of the program at Step 9. I believe part of this was due to procrastination, part of this was due to lack […]
How to Make Restitution in Step 9
Day 64 – Step Work RESTITUTION AND RECONCILIATION KEY PRINCIPLE: Wherever possible, make direct restitution to all persons you have harmed. As we moved on to step 9, we were ready to seek forgiveness. Like the repentant sons of Mosiah who went about “zealously striving to repair all the injuries which they had done” (Mosiah […]
How Do I Make Amends?
Day 63 – Step Work SEEKING FORGIVENESS KEY PRINCIPLE: Make a written list of all persons you have harmed and become willing to make restitution to them. Before our recovery, our addictive lifestyles were like a tornado full of destructive energy that cut through our relationships, leaving much wreckage behind. Step 8 was an opportunity […]
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