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. Fear is amazingly powerful. Fear can overwhelm you, control you and devastate your life. Like many other alcoholics I drink because of fear. I drink to suppress the hundreds of fearful thoughts that travel through my mind. Until several months ago I never really fully understood how much control fear has over me. I now fully understand that for me to conquer my alcoholism and my host of other character defects I must first understand and overcome my fears. In order for me to release and fully understand my fears, I need to write it out. Writing is my release, so I developed this fear worksheet that gives me more room to write what is going on in my head. My 4th Step Fears worksheet is available below, FREE for those of you that wish to use it. . . If you like the worksheet, please give it a digg or a tweet or leave a comment. It would be much appreciated. Thanks!Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postPrint for laterBookmark in BrowserTell a friend

If you’re reading this post then the odds are you have some questions and concerns about alcoholics anonymous. If you have questions and concerns about alcoholics anonymous, AA for short,  then you are probably starting to think that you are developing a problem with alcohol or drugs. If that’s you? Then this post is for you. If this post helps take the edge off and gets you to your first meeting, then I have done my job. The number one fear I hear from new people to the program is that they think AA is too religious. They think AA is some sort of religious cult  and we AA people are going to suck you in, take your money and your first born child. The truth of the matter is, AA can be as religious as you want it to be, or can be void of any religion, it is totally and completely up to you. I am not making this up.  The core principals of AA are simply the 12 steps. Those 12 steps are pretty straight forward and it is totally up to you on how you implement them into your life. When I first entered the program [...]

The only thing that over analyzing yourself while you are in recovery will do for you is delay your progress down the spiritual path. Analyzing ourselves is a normal process we all go through. Our ego’s will always tell us that we can fix ourselves, and we believe it. But if we spend days, weeks and/or months analyzing ourselves we are doing more harm than good. I’m going share with you what happened to me and what I learned to prevent myself from repeating it. This past weekend I attended a three day alcoholics anonymous retreat. I had been looking forward to this retreat for the past several months. But what happened to me took me by total surprise and was the last thing I ever expected to happen. On the way up I was practically giddy with excitement.  I knew it was going to be a positive experience and I couldn’t wait to arrive. But as we pulled into the complex I was suddenly and completely overwhelmed with fear. I just wanted to turn right around and go home. My ego popped it’s ugly head up and said, “Hold on here brother, for the next three days you are [...]

I don’t know about the rest of you but I have a huge imagination. I am always day dreaming, imagining what my life will be like a year from now. For the most part it is my escape from the world as I imagine myself doing big important things in the future. Early on in my sobriety I also became a huge believer in positive affirmations. As you know the main principle behind positive affirmations is to be positive and think nothing but positive thoughts. Then one day I was sitting in an AA meeting and someone started talking about future tripping and how it was a bad thing. Others then began to chime in on the negative reprocutions of future tripping. As I sat there listening I thought “Yikes! I’m always future tripping and imagining myself doing wonderful positive things, I have to stop doing that too??. The humility alone was bad enough, now you want to take this away from me!!” I’m a guy, and no, I do not ask for directions. So I haven’t said a word or asked anyone, not even my sponsors, (I have three, the more the merrier) to clarify future tripping. I know [...]