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Writing Our Own Step 4s
‘We are obsessed with guilt and shame in this culture, and spend very little time affirming the magic, wonder, and beauty that is around us and within us.’
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More Step 4 Journaling
Step Four (traditional language): Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Charlotte Kasl reminds us that it is important to “take inventory” of positive things that support our recovery and that we want to grow towards. Another core component of Step 4 is examining the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that fuel, encourage or…
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Challenges, What Worked, and The Benefits of Recovery – Reading for February 20, 2023
Alli’s note: Adapted from the EDA Big Book story “FOLLOWING THE LIGHT OF RECOVERY” for length and to remove some potentially triggering language and heteronormative language. I love the lists at the end of the story about the challenges the writer faced, what helped, and the benefits of living in recovery. The “what helps” list…
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Step 4 Journaling
Option 1: Imagine a future version of yourself, in strong recovery or recovered, and able to be present for your connected and authentic life. Option 2: Option 3: spend some time working on the table below: Thought or belief about myself that fuels eating disorder behaviors What I can tell myself instead Example: I’m only…
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Further Step 4 Reading
Step Four (traditional language): Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Step Four (example alternative language): Examined my life honestly and without judgement to see how my actions – and the ways I have been taught to hate myself – are causing harm to myself or others. Made a regular practice of recognizing…
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Writing our own alternative Step 3 Language!
Step Three Traditional Language: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. Key components: Example alternatives:
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Step 4
Consider without shame or judgement, the thoughts, beliefs and behaviors we want to move away from, not because they make us bad or tell us anything about our character, but because they are keeping us from being present in our ‘wild and precious lives.’
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Step 3 Journaling/Art Making
Step 3 asks us to honestly examine our willingness to put our trust in something beyond our eating disorders. As we read on Monday, even though a leap or change is not required at this step, just stating our willingness can feel terrifying because we still have faith that our eating disorders are what keep…
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Monday, January 30 – STEP 3!
Traditional Step Three: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. Adapted EDA Big Book Language + some thoughts from Charlotte Kasl: Until we reached Step Three, many of us were working toward recovery with the idea that we “must” have it, because…
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Writing Your Own Step 2
Traditional EDA/AA 12 Step Language for Step 2: Came to believe that a Higher Power could restore us to sanity. Charlotte Kasl writes that the most imporant elements of step two are “hope, faith, and developing strength.” She writes, “When we’re about to give up an addiction or dependency, it sometimes feels as if we’re…
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