Topic of the Week, words that begin with the letter "P"

[MajestyJo]

P is for Please. Please have a good day. Don't let bad moment in your day, spoil your whole day. We need to let go of what is not for our Higher Good.

Manners go a long way. Please and thank you can make for a much better day.

[MajestyJo]

P is for Principles. Practice these principles in all our affairs. Take our recovery out of th rooms and apply them to our live at home, at work, and in the community.

What are those principles?


12 Steps and the 12 Principles

1. We admitted we were powerless over the effects of addiction — that our lives had become unmanageable.

1. Honesty, acceptance and surrender.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

2. Hope, Trust

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

3. Faith, willingness

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

4. Courage.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.

5. Integrity.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

6. Willingness, self-honesty

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

7. Humility.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

8. Justice and brotherly love.

9. Made direct amends to such people, wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

9. Self-discipline and good judgment.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

10. Perseverance and open mindedness.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

11. Awareness.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other codependents, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

12. Love and service.


These very depending on who you are talking to. Many say the only principle for Step One is Honesty, but I am a firm believer in all three as listed here. It says we are to do Step One 100% and in order to do that, we need to find surrender and acceptance to go with the self-honesty.

[MajestyJo]

P is for People. You will get to meet great people along the way. People you would never have drank or used with. We are all on the same recovery road.

[MajestyJo]

P is for Pick and Choose. We need to pick and choose a sponsor. We need to find someone we can identify with. We need to pick and choose the friends we hang out with. People who are not using, and have found this new way of life. Pick and choose to do the Steps. Step One is the only one we have to do 100%.

[MajestyJo]

P is for Progress, not perfection. As I was told, by a gentleman in New Zealand, Ms. Perfection is part of my disease, it is not a recovery tool. All I am asked to do is the beest I can do in today, all i have to do is try. Failure isn't trying and not meeting our expectations, it is in the trying in the first place. Progress is trying and each time getting a little better, some days, not doing so good, while on other days, we are motivated or willing. I often have to pray for the willingness to be williing.

[MajestyJo]

P is for Praise. What is going through my had is the old hymn, Praise God from Whom all Blessing flow.



Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
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Praise God the Father who’s the source;
Praise God the Son who is the course;
Praise God the Spirit who’s the flow;
Praise God, our portion here below!

[MajestyJo]

P is for Play. Don't forget to play. Recovery is for living. Remember Rule #4: Don't take yourself so darn seriously. Have fun.

[MajestyJo]

P is for Print. Makes sure you pick up approved printed literature from your fellowship. if you are like me, you qualify for more than one fellowship. The printed word can do us a lot of good, if we take the words and apply them to our life so we can learn to live it.

~ Have You Hugged A Friend Today? ~

No moving parts, no batteries.
No monthly payments and no fees;
Inflation proof, non-taxable,
In fact, it's quite relaxable.

It can't be stolen, won't pollute,
One size fits all, do not dilute.
It uses little energy,
But yields results enormously.

Relieves your tension and your stress,
Invigorate your happiness;
Combats depression, makes you beam,
And elevates your self esteem.

Your circulation it corrects
Without unpleasant side effects
It is, I think, the perfect drug
May I, prescribe, my friend..The Hug!
(and, of course, fully returnable!)

Pass this Hug to everyone you care about...
And hopefully you'll get lots in return!

[MajestyJo]

P is for Pride. Take pride in what you do, a job well done. Don't take all the credit, save some pride for your Higher Power. He/She got you there, probably saw you through it. So many times, we suffer from false pride.