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Jan 13, 2012, 07:43 PM
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Thanks to my HP and AA I have been sober for 7 months. I never thought I would get to this point! I am working Step 6 and just seem stuck.
I don't really know how to even explain this but I just don't think I'm willing to let some of my character defects go. Sometimes I think there's too many of them and other times I think maybe I just don't really understand them. Do any of you have any help or suggestions for step 6? I have been talking with my sponsor, but not much is helping right now. |
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Jan 13, 2012, 08:01 PM
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 none of us are perfect, hopeful. remember, 'progress, not perfection.' 'keep it simple'. you are doing fine, friend.   7th months. wa-hoo!!!!! 
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours..~Ayn Rand |
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Jan 14, 2012, 05:37 PM
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Hello Hopeful, what I had to do is to go to a different community, one of mindfulness
and other views... because what AA counted as character defects was very *wonky* to me. when I reframed character defects into something I would work with, then I could move forward but it took a new group of people influencing me and giving me their mindset and harmony to see my set of 'traits ' to work on, in a way that worked for me... on MY program. For me, 12 step is about creating and keeping to YOUR program, not what someone else feels is your set of sins' and amends. "S" |
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Jan 14, 2012, 10:22 PM
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Step Six is all about willingness. It not about actually taking any actions. When I work the 6th step I put things into categories.
Things I am willing to let go of now. Things I believe I will be willing to let go of eventually. Things I just am NOT willing to let go of at ALL. All Step 6 asks of us is that we ask our HP to help us be willing to let go of those things to which we still cling. That's it. It is a very simple step for very complicated people. This is straight out of the Book Alcoholics Anonymous. Chapter Into action. Step Six. I have had to do this step repeatedly because things about me move from one category to another all the time. Then I move on to the next step. But that is for another time and another thread. Congratulations on 7 months!!!!!!! That is Fantastic. Keep coming back ODAAT. 
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