Emotions Anonymous

Twelve Steps of Emotions Anonymous

1. We admitted we were powerless over our emotions - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
   Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
7. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
8. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
9. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
10. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
11. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

The Twelve Steps reprinted for adaptation with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.

Contact; Emotions Anonymous

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• 10 Secrets of Happy Relationships
• 23rd Psalm for Recovery
• A Problem Shared is a Problem Halved
• Chantix warning

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Suspicion

Suspicion is like a pair of sunglasses - it makes all the world look dark.

Comments and silent responses overheard at an Adult Children of Alcoholics  meeting.

o      "Deb, let's have lunch tomorrow." - Why would she want to have lunch with me?

o      "Pam, I tried to phone you today." - No you didn't, I was home almost all day.

o      "Larry, you sure are a kick!" - What did he mean by that?

When we suspect the motives of others, who have done nothing other than to make a friendly comment, we would do well to suspect that we are the one with the problem. When we recognize it's our insecurity at play here, we can begin to override the negative self-talk with positive talk.

At first we may have to force ourselves to reply, "Yes, I'd love to have lunch," or "Thank you," to a compliment. As our self-esteem grows it will become natural and genuine to assume people mean what they say.

I will try not to read negatives into comments by others.

"If you don't love yourself, nobody else will. Not only that - you won't be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self."

 

PRIORITIES

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
- Forgive them anyway.

People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
- Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
- Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
- Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building; someone may destroy overnight;
- Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
- Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
- Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
- Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see in the final analysis, it is between you and the Higher Power;
- It was never between you and them anyway.


by Mother Theresa and is engraved on the wall of her home for children in Calcutta