![]() ![]() Whatever the case, it’s time to do some step work: to engage in some concrete activity that will help us find more freedom from our addiction, whatever shape it is currently taking. Others don’t really care what the cause has been-we just want out! Some of us find a measure of comfort in realizing that a disease, not a moral failing, has caused us to reach this bottom. Not every act of growth is motivated by pain it may just be time to cycle through the steps again1 thus beginning the next stage of our never-ending journey of recovery. It may be that we’ve been around awhile, abstinent from drugs, but we’ve discovered that our disease has become active in some other area of our lives, forcing us to face our powerlessness and the unmanageability of our lives once again. It may be that we’re new to recovery, and we’ve just fought-and lost-an exhausting battle with drugs. Our reasons for formally working Step One will vary from member to member. Some NA members “feel” their way through the First Step1 by intuition others choose to work Step One in a more systematic fashion. The healing starts here we can’t go any further until we’ve worked this step. “We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.”Ī “first” of anything is a beginning, and so it is with the steps: The First Step is the beginning of the recovery process.
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