How To Cope With The Dope
Navigating the challenges of loving someone with substance use disorder can feel overwhelming, but you're not alone. This podcast combines personal experiences, research, and my own recovery journey to offer understanding, hope, and practical tools for growth. With monthly interviews featuring inspiring stories of hope and expert insights, I aim to help you move from merely surviving to truly thriving in your own life.
How To Cope With The Dope
Step 4
Step 4 of the AA and Al-Anon program is all about taking a personal inventory. This episode is an overview of the step and how to work it. We learn how this step is about healing resentments, outgrowing our fears and creating a new map with our Higher Power.
Books Mentioned:
Blueprint For Progress Al-Anon's 4th Step Iventory- by Al-Anon Family Groups
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book)
List of Columns to work Resentment and Fear Inventory
1. Name the person, place or institution you have a grudge/resentment towards.
2. What Happened
3. My Part/it effects my ..(self esteem, pride,finances, emotional security, ambitions, personal relationships, sexual relationships)
4. Name the fear around how it effects you.
5. Why am I afraid
6. Has self reliance failed me(how I managed the problem..yelling, gossip, manipulation, deception etc.)
7.How would God have me be-The prayer you will create. How would God have me be, what would he have me believe or do.