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Let me summarize how life has become even more difficult in the past 24 hours. First of all, Supermum lost her job yesterday. Just like that, my parents are both unemployed and we are uninsured come May. How can hard-working, honest, creative, energetic and thoughtful people be dismissed? What kind of mother-fucking, conservative, gun-toting jerks dismiss my mom, the most tolerant, easy-going person I know? I can’t wrap my mind around it, so I’ll leave it at that for now.
Secondly, I really like my nutritionist, but even I cannot fully appreciate one’s expertise when one tells me that I cannot consume starches of any sort for a month. After that month of letting my stomach and other organs heal, I can try and see how much starch I can tolerate.
This is all too intense to dwell on right now, so I’m signing off. I usually wouldn’t say something like this: but keep us in your thoughts.

Working The Steps: Step 11

In preparation for Thanksgiving it’s appropriate that we focus on Step 11: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry it out. Many of us struggle with the holiday season; fighting through memories of bad choices that have …

Working The Steps: Step 12

December… the perfect month to focus on Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. We are all recovering from something: hurts, habits or hang-ups. And if we’re recovering, that means someone helped …

Working The Steps: Step 3

“Step by step, I’m walking on water to a land no man can see.” Bryan Duncan Step Three: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. Because Step 3 is so critical, we must check our progress on the previous steps. If we haven’t done the work of Step …

Working The Steps: Step 4

Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. The first time I worked this step was in therapy almost eight years ago. It was shocking to see all my addictions, compulsions and perversions written down on paper. Because much of my life had been lived in a daze of fantasy and …

Working The Steps: Step 6

Having been out of town the better part of the month, I’m late posting June’s 12 Step work. Better late than never 😉 Blessings… Step 6:Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Getting ready for God to remove character defects in itself is a process. Some character defects are like …

Working The Steps–Step 7

Continuing my goal to work The Twelve Steps, one Step for each month of the year; focusing on Step 7 for July… Step Seven: Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. Step Seven is critical to the cleansing process and will prepare us for the next stages of our recovery. In the first six steps, …

Working The Steps: Step 8

In my personal recovery walk I focus my daily devotions on the Step that coincides with the month of the year. For the month of August I’m focusing on Step 8. Step 8: Made a list of all persons we harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. InStep 8 we start to …

Working The Steps: Step 9

In my daily devotions I focus on The 12 Step that coincides with the month of the year.September ~ Step 9: Made direct amends to people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Step 9 is a culmination of the forgiveness process: forgiving ourselves and others, receiving forgiveness from God …

Working The Steps: Step One

We admitted we were powerless over our dependencies–that our life had become unmanageable. In October 2004, in a last ditch effort to deal with my addiction, my husband, Bill, asked me to go with him to a couples seminar. Dr. Doug Weiss from Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs was to be speaking …

Working The Steps: Step Two

“Step by step… I’m walkin’ on water to a land no man can see” ~ Bryan Duncan Having recognized our brokenness in Step One we may feel empty and lost… “O.K., I’ve admitted I’m powerless. Now what!?” Our next step will birth faith in us. Step 2: Came to believe that God could restore us to sanity. At …

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