Working the Program

[MajestyJo]

Are You working the Steps?

I act as if I have but truthfully no
I have no clue about the steps
Have done a few, never have worked them
I am done with the steps
Always

I like that concept, and for me it is true for the most part. Because I have a memory problem a lot of things took a lot of time to make themselves known to me, I had to apply the steps as they appeared. As I got honest, I also had to do them from a more honest perspective, especially if the Steps I did were done in the first three years of my recovery.

I didn't have true self-awareness until then. Mind you I shut down at 3 and didn't really do a lot of step work until I was almost 53. In early recovery, I was on Step One for a long time. It took years to get out of my denial so I could take the first part of Step One 100% as it says to do in AA. My life will always be unmanageable when managed by me, so God and I are always working on that one.

Recovery Inn - February 2008

It is a one day at a time, and I have found that I always need a few Steps to get through a day, some days, all 12.