Sequence of ACA Recovery

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Recovery Blog, Entry #2.

Not everyone recovers using the same path, at the same rate, or using the same methodology.   The following 12 Step type sequence has helped millions in various recovery programs. 

  • Hitting bottom /Asking for and accepting help
  • Admitting powerlessness and unmanageability
  • Becoming open to spirituality and a spiritual solution
  • Getting honest / Inventorying our past
  • Telling our story openly and honestly with another
  • Humbly seeking the removal of shortcomings
  • Finding self-forgiveness
  • Making amends to those harmed
  • Continuing inventory of daily thoughts and behavior
  • Finding discernment
  • Meditating and seeking spiritual direction
  • Practicing love and self-love
  • Carrying the message of recovery to others

Where I am at:
Asking for Help + Admitting powerlessness and unmanageability + Becoming open to spirituality and a spiritual solution + Getting honest / Inventorying our past + Telling our story openly and honestly with another



In the future:
Humbly seeking the removal of shortcomings + Finding self-forgiveness + Making amends to those harmed + Continuing inventory of daily thoughts and behavior

Comments:

Here is the relationship with Christianity:
Continuing inventory of daily thoughts and behavior is what Christians call their daily walk with God. Theologically it is called “Experiential Sanctification”, which means the Holy Spirit convicts us of out sins, then we repent and ask god for forgiveness and help, and God washed us.

It has not been clear to me that Christians can take the Christian experience of and refer to it as “Continuing inventory”, IE, one of the Steps. My experience is that Christians (I mean church people) seem to be unaware of 12 Step terminology. So far, in church 12 step groups, there still seems to be a disconnect. I shall have to wait and see. But this is just standard Christian stuff – there is nothing different about it other than Christians want to use “church-ese” as a language and turn stupid if you speak “recovery language”. Seems to me like Adult Children and Alanon are INVISIBLE to Church people. I hope I am wrong.

I personally want to talk recovery. I want to be out of the closet on that. I get the feelijg thats not acceptable at a baptist church.

What about Drugs?
If you take anti-anxiety meds, dare you tell anyone at church? I get PUSHBACK. Like “don’t trust medical people” and “Dont let them medicate you”.

OK, if my brain doesn’t have serotonin, or is out of balance on dopamine, WHY is that some kind of a moral issue? THATS CRAZY.

Nobody at church tells me not to take Ozempic or insulin or metformin for diabetes. I just feel like church people have a one-size-fits-all attitude toward life solutions. This really grates. ITS PART OF WHY CHURCH IS NOT SAFE.

Oh! I got chided for saying church is not safe. But the leader of a church based 12 step group.
ME NOT HAPPY.


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