Cocaine Addiction & Recovery Support Group
Cocaine addiction is the excessive intake of cocaine, and can result in physiological damage, lethargy, depression, or a potentially fatal overdose. Though the immediate craving to do more cocaine is strong and very common, this feeling usually subsides in most users within an hour. This craving can, as it has in many users, develop rather quickly into an intense...
Step 5 Admitted to God, to ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 5 is where we stop hiding and begin to take responsibility for our actions. When you wrote your 4th Step you were, in a sense, admitting to God and yourself, the wrongs you did to yourself and others while you were practicing your addiction.
Although most people focus on how they are going to tell someone else their inventory, admitting our defects, character flaws, wrongs, and problems to the God of our understanding and to ourselves is equally important.
To yourself and God
One way to consciously admit these things to your Higher Power is to re-read your inventory in a truly prayerful or meditative manner. Sit quietly and, without making yourself feel wrong, offer up a prayer in your own fashion, maybe saying something like: "Dear Goddess, here's my inventory," then reading it either aloud or silently. When you're finished close with some sort of thank you for the process and your own courage.
Now, take another look at what you've written own it. If you find yourself trying to justify any portion or blame it on another, just stop and take responsibility. The goal is not to feel badly about yourself but simply to recognize that you are the one who did those things. Know that you're in a process of change and move on.
Yes, share your inventory with someone
Next, you'll want to read your inventory out loud to someone. Yes, read it all. Your sponsor is a likely candidate and is probably very familiar with the process. But there can be good reasons to choose someone else. You want to be sure you trust the person you choose to hold your inventory in total confidence. Sometimes a Priest is a better selection; sometimes a pastor, minister or other religious leader.
This inventory story should be true
I once heard a fellow state he took a bus to the far side of town, and, after getting on another bus and going clear to the back, he read his inventory to his startled seat mate. He then jumped off the bus and made his way home. When he went to his regular meeting that night, who should be in the front row but the person he had shared his inventory with.
I have no idea if this story is true I hope it is! The point, of course, is to get it done, no matter how you have to do it.
The 5th Step is scary, but it's one of the most powerful actions we can take toward becoming Powerfully Recovered.
Love, peace and abundance,
http://www.powerfullyrecovered.com/articles/5thstep.htm
Step 5 is where we stop hiding and begin to take responsibility for our actions. When you wrote your 4th Step you were, in a sense, admitting to God and yourself, the wrongs you did to yourself and others while you were practicing your addiction.
Although most people focus on how they are going to tell someone else their inventory, admitting our defects, character flaws, wrongs, and problems to the God of our understanding and to ourselves is equally important.
To yourself and God
One way to consciously admit these things to your Higher Power is to re-read your inventory in a truly prayerful or meditative manner. Sit quietly and, without making yourself feel wrong, offer up a prayer in your own fashion, maybe saying something like: "Dear Goddess, here's my inventory," then reading it either aloud or silently. When you're finished close with some sort of thank you for the process and your own courage.
Now, take another look at what you've written own it. If you find yourself trying to justify any portion or blame it on another, just stop and take responsibility. The goal is not to feel badly about yourself but simply to recognize that you are the one who did those things. Know that you're in a process of change and move on.
Yes, share your inventory with someone
Next, you'll want to read your inventory out loud to someone. Yes, read it all. Your sponsor is a likely candidate and is probably very familiar with the process. But there can be good reasons to choose someone else. You want to be sure you trust the person you choose to hold your inventory in total confidence. Sometimes a Priest is a better selection; sometimes a pastor, minister or other religious leader.
This inventory story should be true
I once heard a fellow state he took a bus to the far side of town, and, after getting on another bus and going clear to the back, he read his inventory to his startled seat mate. He then jumped off the bus and made his way home. When he went to his regular meeting that night, who should be in the front row but the person he had shared his inventory with.
I have no idea if this story is true I hope it is! The point, of course, is to get it done, no matter how you have to do it.
The 5th Step is scary, but it's one of the most powerful actions we can take toward becoming Powerfully Recovered.
Love, peace and abundance,
http://www.powerfullyrecovered.com/articles/5thstep.htm
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
Step #5 by Jerry Tehilapi, Lakota
#5
Acknowledge to the Great Mystery Tunkaslila-Ate , to ourselves, and our Indian spiritual advisor, the exact nature of our struggles, wrongs, against the tide and is manifest destiny.
Antigas thirteen circles
#5 We acknowledge to the Goddess, to ourselves and to another person our successess and shortcomings.
Saras steps
#5 Admitted to our higher power, ourselves and another person the exact nature of these concerns.
16 steps for empowerment By Charlotte Davis Kasl,Ph.D
#5 We share with another person and the Universe all those things inside of us for which we feel shame and guilt.
Sherose
namaste'