I have 5 years due to the 12step program. I still go to meetings and I sponsor women And help them get sober . I love the 12 steps. Saved my life one day at a time
@Edie Bouvier It didn't work out and I ended up losing my license - ban nearly up. I've got my drinking down to once a fortnight, and only a half bottle, so I'm working on it. From someone who could smash down 2 liters in a 3 day weekly binge, That's a huge improvement! Thank you for asking, all the best :)
After deciding that my alcohol addiction is such a massive problem for so many years. I decided to call for help and sat to listen about the 12 steps. This was exactly what I needed to listen to at this point in my life. Thank you so much.
“Single most important book of the 20th Century”. I could not agree more! In May, 2019 I will have 25yrs of continuous sobriety. Without question, recovery has been the greatest adventure of my life! Best wishes to you!
Dear Recovery 2.0... These videos you've made have honestly saved my life, and thus will help me to eventually help save the lives of others as well... Thank you
I have come back wiser, more beaten up and past ripe. I have fruit flies coming out of me. You are a true inspiration✨ You have an incredible amount of awareness I have smoked pot since I was 14, I am now 44 I’ve been drinking since around 18 yrs of age. I’m practicing sobriety once again. I’ve been trying to get help but haven’t been able to. Thank you so much for these videos🌷
I am teaching "Breathing Under Water--Spirituality and the 12 steps" by Richard Rohr for my Soul Sisters Group at Johns Creek UMC, and I wanted to find out the 12 steps. Thank you for a beautiful witness. I watched the entire message. I don't know if you list the 12 steps on your website, but I had to stop the video a lot to write them down. This is the whole message that I want to share with everyone--and we are ALL ADDICTED to something. Thank you Tommy for sharing your life. Very Beautiful.
God man you get me fired up. You're energy is infectious and you're so inspiring. I relapsed with drugs and gambling recently, lost everything I've been building for months and enough is enough. I went to 2 meetings before, got overconfident and thought i could handle a "little bit". CA and GA once a week each from today, for real. Tommy binges in the evening. Thank you
Thank you for this video. It helped me today. i'm coming back after a long miserable relapse, I came back and praying to keep my willingness to get through the steps; my life depends on it. Your words made sense to me. I really appreciate it. Best wishes, Especially the first step Yeah, i had less power than was needed. The way you put that and other things you said were perfect. I'm down to do the 5th on thursday and i been putting this off forever. I don't want to drag it out or worse, avoid it.
This is an amazing and easy to understand exclamation of all 12 steps. Thank you so much for this. It truly makes me excited for the prospect of taking this journey.
Thank you so much. I don't feel I did a very thorough fourth step the first time around and this really inspired me to delve back in and go a little deeper. You have a way with words and making things understandable and relatable in a non judgmental way. I found this video through searching how to stop smoking cigarettes and loved that video as well! You are a living example and proof that this stuff works.
Good stuff Tom. I believe the Oxford Groups had an influence, and played a role in creating about 4 steps or so, that were later expanded, and clarified. Thanks for sharing. ;)
Wonderfully said. Thank you so much. This will help me as I look to become a sponsor. I love your explanation of step 3. Decision to let go and to cut away the ego. I do not control things. I cannot fix this addictive behavior by myself.
This is gold! Thanks. It's time for another step 4 inventory. This approach seems so effective. Any suggestions on identifying resentments, fears. I am too afraid to look!
Im so secretive, and so private with my addiction, its embarrasing, and makes me feel like im not who i should be. How would you convince such a shy person to ever want to socialize, or be apart of a recovery community. I dont know how to like myself anymore, and im scared of not liking myself without it. Ive had an on and off addiction to marajuana and nocotine for 10 years. Absolutely struggling to get over it. I keep trying to let it go, its ruining my life, but nothing seems to work and it just gets worse every year. I want to try again, but its so challenging. Im hoping this method helps me heal.
Rose Poppy, Check out an online meeting here: r20.com/meetings You don't have to say anything and you can simply listen and take in what people are going through. You will quickly learn that you are in the right place and hopefully can share a bit if only to tell people you are new and are interested in being free. With Love, --Tommy
@@tommyrosen4359 joined 2 months ago, am now starting my own business, figuring out where i want to be in life and would reccomend your meetings and group to any person struggling. Thankyou so much Tommy!
1st thing you will not wake up loving yourself any day soon if you continue to use . The day you realise you can't do it alone is your best assist. You don't have to talk at meetings or share just show up and giving it a serious go and watch your thoughts change.
Yes, when the spiritual melody is worked out, the mind and body will fallow. The first 164 page's contain the original 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. I highly recommend sticking with the book. Yes, after more than fortyfive year, them 12 step still work. I still see the miracle in each and every one that completed the 12 step work as in the book, yes a fantastic way of life it is! Bill W. and Dr Bob should go down in history with more recognition...
I am now “a little more ripe for the work ahead” 😂 I made a start on step 4 a few years ago but didn’t have the stamina to complete it. Now I’m focusing on step 3 a while longer 👌🏼
Thank you! Dr Bob did not have much to do with the production of the Big book though, it was mostly Bill W and some Hank P. The whole Akron fellowship (Oxford group at that time) were actually pretty sceptical to the idea of the book. I recommend the excellent book Writing the big book by William Schaberg for an exciting and informative study of how the Big book came to be!
I've been procrastinating on taking The Steps after going into AA for over 28 years! I've been involved in about TEN other 12 Step fellowships. Your review make The Steps seem doable and the 3 Step Dance doesn't work.
Great helpful video. Thank you a lot. No question I need to access more effective power than I have found so far. Could it be God? Don't believe in God ? No problem. Get on your knees every morning and evening asking the silence for help for a month or two anyway and see what hsppens !
G.enerator O.rganizer D.estroyer Thanks for this. I asked G. O. D. To help me understand the 12 steps from a yoga perspective and I found this teaching. Now I feel clear that I aligned and be willing to accept support towards my recovery from a lifetime of confusion about CoDa.
Launch and load the long version of the 12-Steps Y'all ! Please share the 12 responsibly. Yes, there's not a person in the world who doesn't have a challenging life issue. (My latest opinion.) But get some higher wisdom before sharing,, don't slam the steps on people !
This is very helpful, but once I noticed the smacking in between sentences, it slowly drove me crazy. Full disclosure, I have misophonia pretty bad. Good content and talk, though. Thanks!
The 12 steps were taken in principle from the Oxford Group. AA owes it's life to the Oxford Group and it should be noted. The Oxford group took it from the Bible.
Yes! Check out the 12 promises. The most important thing is to put ur heart & soul into the 12 steps...and find a really good sponsor to help u w the process so u experience the “spiritual awakening” ...which is basically just a huge psychological, mental emotional, & physical shift in ur life where u gain control over urself & ur life & virtually everything changes for the better. It’s absolutely amazing & doesn’t seem to require a spiritual belief system at all, but it’s so worth putting the work in and basically creates a life worth staying clean/sober for...otherwise what’s the point ?😉 Without doing that people are just “dry drunks” or clean addicts. A.A. was founded on have that life transforming experience & recovering, then helping others. The thing is most of us become in control 99.99% of the time...as long as we avoid & control major triggers. We all have a moment every few years or so where we are so stressed hurt or angry we would use drink etc. it was right in front of us. It’s a good idea to go to meetings long term-once a week is fine for many of us, sponsor others ideally or do something else to help people in addiction. This is key, bc it reminds us of all the bad things we would otherwise forget in a bad moment...and we have others depending on us. Those 2 things are an obsolete game changer. It’s also so important to talk to others in recovery & have multiple people u can call wo it being ackward if u’ve had a fucked up day. Even if u have 10-20 years those steps extra are like a bulletproof vest...& the unthinkable can happen. Anyways, I sponsor people when I can and also do life coaching...which goes way beyond step work but seriously helps recovery as well as life character success etc If u, or others are serious about recovery & working the steps, and preferably have at least 60-90 days u can leave ur email, or how to find u on FaceBook messenger etc. and I’ll try to reach out whenever I see this.
If I hear the word God... I automatically know i can't go wrong. One thing I am confused about and it is concerning is how most ppl I met in the rooms is an atheist.
Too bad it isn't true freedom from all addictive behaviors that you find in the rooms. Over ingesting coffee and smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is the majority of those you find. Would be awesome if this was truly a spiritual path like you lay it out, but it is sadly not what is shared or what you see. What a different world it would be...
I'm 18days sober (roxy/fent)) I'm not sure what to do next...I'm jusr now coming out of detox sick stage...I don't want to ever experience this pain & self torture that I've caused myself or my family. I finally have the realization that this journey has to be one that I've never taken before....from controlling thoughts, my surroundings, the people that I entertain with my time....I really need to understand & change my thought process...
