#12 steps of AA

[agapebhc]

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Above all else, we are dedicated to ensuring that everyone who comes through our doors is shown compassion and care as they begin their journey of recovery. By constantly setting new standards for exceptional patient care, Agape Behavioral Healthcare seeks to truly make a difference in each individual’s life.

[agapebehavioralhealthcare]

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Address: 1164 E Oakland Park Blvd, Ste 301, Oakland Park, FL 33334

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At Agape Behavioral Healthcare, we believe in a love that’s universal and unconditional. We are passionate about providing an opportunity for authentic transformation to everyone, regardless of their circumstances.

Since 2016, our mission has remained the same: to be a guiding light on the path to recovery and wellness for those struggling with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.

We provide the most advanced facilities available so that our patients have access to the best possible chance of achieving long-term recovery. Our drug rehab program in Florida has been carefully crafted by our world-class team of addiction specialists so that individuals have all the resources they need to make significant progress in their journey towards healing.

Above all else, we are dedicated to ensuring that everyone who comes through our doors is shown compassion and care as they begin their journey of recovery. By constantly setting new standards for exceptional patient care, Agape Behavioral Healthcare seeks to truly make a difference in each individual’s life.

Business Email: admissions@agapebhc.com

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[serenityquest]

[oasisr]

It really hurts me to see my best friend struggle with alcoholism.

Even worse, she refuses to seek out resources to help her or attempt to become sober.

She spreads negativity and vitriol when she should be focusing on her healing journey.

I told her I need space because I don't want to be around her when she's screaming and cursing, and going on rants. I can't deal with that right now.

I'm on my own healing journey right now. I'm focusing on my health, sobriety, spirituality and working toward my academic and career goals.

[tjtevlin]

35 years! I'm forever grateful for this wonderful gift of sobriety.

[unofficialchronicle]

Am I making the choices I want to make, or is habit making my choices for me? —Al Anon Daily Reader “Courage to Change,” p. 209.

[echthr0s]

either I am weirdly and severely lacking in the imagination department or everyone who makes/reblogs those "when every song is about the Fictional Character/OC" posts listens to way different music than I do. I mean, I think I'm pretty imaginative. but even I cannot imagine The Character to a song like *shuffles* Obscene as Cancer by Anaal Nathrakh

even if I weed out all the metal (I think it's reasonable to assume that yeah, most of the people on those posts aren't metalheads, or at least are more the Sleep Token kind of metalhead as opposed to the Cattle Decapitation kind) I'm left with a lot of songs that are either just About Something Very Specific And Therefore Not Widely Applicable (like modern politics or some specific relationship dynamic or a historical event or the plot of a concept album or well you get the picture) or have lyrics I just cannot make any sense of. although, I guess, if the lyrics don't make sense you have full rein to somehow make those lyrics into something about The Character. I guess that's where the imagination comes in, right

my point is any time I listen to my playlist I think about those posts because it takes me being like 15 tracks in before I get to a single song that I can do the "this is about The Character now" thing with and sometimes that annoys the fuck out of me because I want to play, too >:(

[hiddenramen]

oh shit i didn't realize so many people don't know this but if you ever hear talk of a "mandatory twelve step program" or "court-mandated AA meetings" or "a court-mandated twelve-step program," for the record, these are the twelve steps:

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

[candlelightdiaries]

I met up with my sponsor the other day because I’m going through the steps again using the 12 & 12. This meeting we were talking about step two and what it means to have the willingness to hand over control to a higher power. I explained to her the research I’m doing and how I’m leaning more and more into witchcraft/paganism and apparently that’s step two. Even though I’ve gone through the steps before I have never felt this kind of connection to the world around me and my higher power. It feels amazing and I hope it bodes well for the rest of the steps. I am proud of myself for taking the initiative to go on this journey and finally figure out what I believe in. It’s a bit strange, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I’m not really sure how to talk to people about all of this, but I’m sure my friends are going to be supportive and helpful, especially my spiritual mentor. I’m just so happy :)

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[benji-screem]

idk if anyone will see this but do any other addicts/alcoholics out there have any "tips" for someone having a lot of trouble going to meetings and stuff after my sponsor died? I have relapsed a lot and am barely holding on but every time I think about going to meetings I think about my sponsor and idk what to do. it feels so wrong to try and get a new sponsor

[serenityquest]

[fighter-paladin]

So I work at a rehab center and I am faced with the 12 steps of AA daily and frequently. Now I agree with AA at its core but have never liked the phrasing of the 12 steps. They are based in American Evangelical Christian ideology and while they do work, I find them to be a bit outdated. As well as hard for people to truly get what they are saying. So, I basically decided to try and rephrase the 12 Steps of recovery without the Evangelical, American, Christian lens.

1. Abandoned our pride and understood that we can no longer overcome our addiction(s) on our own.

2. We have come to understand that a higher power can aid us back to sanity. May that be God, Spirit, higher self, family, the cosmos, etc.

3. Made a decision to trust our higher power to provide and watch over us as we heal.

4. We have made a personal, deep inquiry into ourselves. We have discovered our faults and have grown to understand how they have come about within us.

5. Admitted to our higher power, ourselves and a trusted companion exactly what our faults are.

6. We are fully and truly ready to rectify our faults and become a better person.

7. We have come to trust and rely on our higher power to guide us to freedom from our addiction(s).

8a. Made a list of everyone we have harmed due to our addiction(s), and became willing to make amends to them.

8b. Made a list of those who have harmed us and became willing to let go of their hold over us.

9. Made direct amends to the people we have harmed wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

(The following steps are ongoing and serve as maintenance to keep us from falling back to old habits.)

10. We continue to take responsibility for our actions both past and present. When we are wrong we admit it but do not let it consume us.

11. Through prayer and/or meditation we strengthen our connection to our higher power and weaken our addiction(s)'s hold over us. Through prayer and/or meditation we ask only for the wisdom to stay sober, and the knowledge to aid others on their path.

12. As a result of our growth and healing we carry these lessons to others who have become sick with the illness of addiction.

[attachablepenis]

thinking about how roxy was only able to develop alcoholism at 16 thanks to alpha rose prepping the house with bottles and bottles of booze for her to drink. how any teenager would develop one in that kind of situation, how the amount of alochol was almost like encouragment