Step 3: Thoughts and Feelings or Action ?
A common occurrence I have had in my recovery experience and within the fellowship of SLAA is the awareness of being consumed with thoughts and feelings. These thoughts may include what I think about a relationship, what I think about myself thinking about the relationship and what I think and feel about my life. However, this thinking and feeling have only lead me to frustration, acting out behaviors and an addictive process. So in recovery, my goal is to allow the higher power to come in to stop this addictive process and to let the addictive process leak its way out of my life. However, when I first started my recovery it was important for me to identify what my thoughts and feelings were as I was often consumed with what other peoples thoughts and feelings were etc. So this was, in fact, a good thing to be aware of and it allowed me to work through my insane thinking of inadequacy and failure and shame and bring in more positive self-af...