Voices of Recovery
July 27
The Third Step invites us to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, not the control of God. We are not abandoning ourselves to the direction of some powerful taskmaster forcing us to do things that are not of our own choosing. Instead, we become open to making new choices for ourselves in the light of a Higher Power’s transforming love and care….
July 28
In our groups, there is a collective wisdom that has grown and been handed down over the years. We learn many new solutions to old problems….
July 30
Some of us who rushed into the First Step later discovered this might be another expression of our need to control things and work the “perfect” program….
July 31
We start by admitting that we are completely powerless to stop our addictive sexual behaviors on our own. We admit that our lives are out of our control….
August 1
[Humility] means that we are not too proud or ashamed to believe that we can be helped….
August 2
The miracle of recovery from sex addiction becomes a reality we experience every day….
August 3
We may consider entering into a co-sponsorship relationship with a program friend for mutual support….
August 4
We listen respectfully to what others have to say and share our experience as it seems appropriate…
August 5
If we relapse, it is important that we get right back into recovery immediately. We need not turn a mistake into a self-destructive binge….
August 6
We share our program so that we can gain a balanced recovery and we do this by directly showing our three circles to our sponsor and to people in our group. Without this clarity we can continue to act out, because we are confused about what sobriety is for us…