Addictive Sabotage: Finding Liberation from Ourselves
- Author
- Evan McDermod
- Published
- Sat 25 Jan 2020
- Episode Link
- None
28 - We are in an age of addiction. While the stereotype revolves around chemical dependencies such as drug and alcohol misuse, our definition is far too narrow and misses the point that addiction is immersed into our consumeristic culture. Evan breaks down his addictions that stem from a feeling of inadequacy, and how he is embracing the 12 step program to help overcome. We all have addictions of some type, most of us just don't realize it.
Russell Brand: Recovery
If you struggle with a severe addiction, please consider reaching out to an appropriate support group
Resources for addiction:
Alcohol Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous
Gamblers Anonymous
Debtors Anonymous
Sexaholics Anonymous
The Twelve Step Process:
- We admitted we were powerless over our addictions—that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- We're entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- 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.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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