The 12th Step Podcast

Defining Your Abstinence Part 2

Abstinence is a term used in the addictions field to describe the process of abstaining—meaning avoiding, or not engaging in certain potentially addictive substances or behaviors. Join us as we talk about what it means to define your abstinence. This episode is brought to you thanks to one of our listeners.  

Defining Your Abstinence Part 1

Abstinence is a term used in the addictions field to describe the process of abstaining—meaning avoiding, or not engaging in certain potentially addictive substances or behaviors. Join us as we talk about what it means to define your abstinence. This episode is brought to you thanks to one of our listeners.  

Third Step

Join us as we discuss the Third Step and what it truly means to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God and how much better our lives can be when we do.

Needing Approval

Join us as we discuss the need for seeking approval and how that effects our addiction and recovery. Attention-seeking behavior may stem from jealousy, low self-esteem, loneliness, personality disorder, or as a result of an addiction. In this episode we will talk about this topic and what you can do to change your mindset from attention seeking to internal validation.

Healthy Relationship with Yourself

A healthy and encouraging support circle in recovery is important, but when it comes to sustaining sobriety and maintaining a balanced lifestyle, you are your greatest ally –  and your thoughts are more potent than you might think. You’re probably well acquainted with your inner voice or self dialogue- those outspoken, opinionated, and sometimes downright stubborn vocals that always seem to have something to say, every second of the day. Your inner voice is your relentless cheerleader, reassuring you on sleepless nights that you are worthy enough. Your inner voice can also be the defeating and pessimistic antagonist, whispering unreasonable worries and impossible fears. Join us as we talk about what it takes to have a healthy relationship with yourself.

Step Two

Step Two is a step of hope, faith and realization. It is a big step towards God or your Higher Power. In spite of all of the failures in our own lives - all of the broken promises, hard feelings, disappointments, failures, destructive behavior, hatred, anxiety, depression or guilt in our lives - there is still hope. There is hope because there is a Power greater than ourselves. And this Power has the ability to restore our lives to a life where there is freedom from the insanity of addictive behaviors.

Difficult Conversations

Join us as we discuss practical strategies for handling difficult conversations with grace and agility while achieving productive results. This is a conversation for anyone who desires to help confront someone with addiction or is struggling to have an important conversation with their sponsor, therapist or someone they care about.

Boundries

Personal Boundaries are important because they set the basic guidelines of how you want to be treated. Boundaries are the guidelines that people create to establish how others are able to behave around them. Setting boundaries can ensure that any relationships can be mutually respectful, appropriate, and caring. Join us as we talk about boundaries and hoe they can help your recovery.

First Step

For most addicts our addictive sexual behavior increased our loneliness and insecurity, damaged our self-worth, estranged us from our spiritual nature, and often resulted in emotional trauma. We often neglected our responsibilities and put off doing things that we didn’t want to face. Our disease left us with little time, energy, or money for anything else. No matter how many promises or resolutions we made, no matter how strong our efforts and our determination, the behaviors eventually returned, along with their painful consequences. Join us as we talk about our First Step and how in taking the First Step, we admit that our addiction was destroying us, and that we were unable to stop it.

Provisional Beliefs Part 2 of 2

Join us and our special guest and therapist Shane Harmon as talk about provisional beliefs and how they can help you in your recovery. Significant change requires making an internal "paradigm shift." In recovery, this means changing the basic beliefs we carry that supports our addiction. Embracing this provisional beliefs will help you through the challenges that come as we change our behavior and help you to repair the damage caused by your addiction.