How To Cope With The Dope
Gain inspiration, hope and ways to navigate life while dealing with a loved ones addiction. Listen to various ways to not just survive but to thrive through short digestible episodes. Feel inspired through the interviews of hope.
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.