Worth Recovery

Working step 4 requires courage and honesty. How have you worked Step 4 in your own life?  In part 1 of this podcast - Amy discusses the traditional method of working step 4 outlined by AA and the promises and benefits of completing this step.  The worksheets referenced in the episode can be found at www.worthrecovery.com.  

It's not always easy to ask for help.  In fact, asking for help is one of the hardest things we learn to do in recovery.  Listen to Amy discuss how hard it was to reach out and find a sponsor - but also the reasons why it has been the best part of her recovery.  

A moral inventory is a starting place in facing the facts about ourselves.  It takes courage and honesty.  It also takes an understanding of why it is necessary.  Listen to Amy discuss why this moral inventory will change our lives and how we will use it moving forward. 

What exactly are boundaries and why are they necessary in recovery?  Why do I feel like a bitch every time I even think about boundaries?  Listen to Amy talk about the four major types of boundaries you need, and share her own experiences with boundary success and failure. 

Working step 4 can be intimidating.  Many addicts get hung up here and don't move forward.  Step 4 demands honesty and courage if we are going to work it in our lives.  Listen to Amy describe what that means to her and how we find courage & honesty.

Are you struggling to figure out who you are in recovery?  Do you feel like you're having an identity crisis?  Yeah - me too.  Listen to Amy discuss her own experience with figuring out who she was in addiction and recovery and how to take yourself along in your own journey.

The principles behind steps 1, 2, and 3 provide us the essence of surrender.  What does it mean to surrender our addiction?  Doesn't surrendering make me a loser?  Listen to Amy discuss her experiences with surrendering and how it works in her life. 

Are you engaged in the struggle of your life?  Are you moving forward or are you stuck?  Are there things in your life that you're escaping from or ignoring?  How do you move forward?  Listen to Amy talk about being engaged in the struggle of her life and get some ideas on how you can stay engaged as well!

In the conclusion of the series on step 3, listen to Amy make some suggestions on how to practically turn your will and live over to the care of God. 

Comparison, the opposite of connection, has a huge negative effect in our lives.  Listen to Amy talk about what comparison does to our lives and how we can take steps to healing and steps to connection. 

When we turn our will over to our higher power, we're not giving it up for someone else to play with.  We turn it over to the CARE of God.  Listen to Amy talk about three significant experiences in her life where she has seen the Care of God in her life.  

Connection is vital in recovery.  At a recent women's retreat, Amy interviewed women who wanted to share with you their tools of recovery.  Listen to Liberty, Sarah, and Pamela share their messages with you about Acceptance, Support, Rigorous Honesty and Hope for the future.  

What does it mean to turn over your will?  How do you do that? What does it require?  Listen to Amy discuss the answers to these questions and the identity crisis that comes along with it.

Will you go to meetings for the rest of your life?  Listen to Amy answer this question and talk about the fundamental principles of living in Recovery.  

Step 3 asks us to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.  Recovery demands that we be accountable for both our actions and our inactions.  Step 3 is where we being this accountability process.  Are you being a decision maker in your own life?

Finding a place to stay connected is essential if we are to live in recovery.  At a recent women's retreat Amy attended, she spoke to Becky, Candace, and Emily and recorded their brief message to you about recovery tools they have learned.  

In the conclusion of the series on Step 2, Amy provides suggestion on how to work this step in your life.  Listen to her outlines the four commitments necessary to working Step 2.  

In the conclusion of Lee's story, listen to her describe some of the events of the last three years in recovery including her worst and best moments.  "Don't let anyone tell you you're not worth it" is her concluding message. 

In continuing the deep dive on step two, listen to Amy talk about the ways insanity manifests in our lives.  If we agree that we need to be restored to sanity, as step two tells us, we must be willing to see and admit our own insanity.  How does insanity manifest in your life?

In the first of the Women's Stories Series, Amy talks with Lee, as she shares her story of addiction and recovery.  Everyone's story is just a little different.  Hear how addiction impacted Lee, her life and her family.  

The understanding of a Higher Power must be personal in order for it to work in our lives.  Listen to Amy share her experiences with defining her Higher Power and the challenge to define your own!

If there was one thing you wish people could understand about your addiction, what would it be?  Listen to Amy talk about the one thing she hopes all people remember about addiction, especially sex addiction.  

Continuing the deep dive into the 12 Steps of recovery, Amy discusses what step two is all about.  Coming to meetings, waking up to our insanity, and learning to build confidence in a power bigger than ourselves are all essential parts to understanding the beginning of step 2.  

In the concluding episode of the Talking Back Challenge, Amy discusses phase 4 of the design your own talking back statements.  Learn how to stay in the trenches and declare war on the negative shaming voices in your head.  Worksheets can be found at www.worthrecovery.com.

The steps work in so much more than addiction.  Listen to Amy discuss how step one is a life principle and how we can apply the principles of software development to our own lives.  Also, learn how to translate this principle into language everyone can understand.