12 Steps Series: Step Two

In this episode, we cover Step Two of the Twelve Steps Codependents’ Guide To The Twelve Steps, Melody Beattie STEP 2 - Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity Quote #1 - “I don’t have to force or control my recovery. I can do my best to work the Steps and peacefully allow change to happen.”(p40 Codependents’ Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #2 - “A tremendous battle takes place within me on a regular basis. That battle is between the part of me that insists that if I try harder, I can control things and extricate myself from any mess, and the part of me that knows there is a Higher Way, a Way that will lift me to levels of thinking, feeling, and behaving beyond what I could accomplish on my own.”(p43 Codependents’ Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #3 - “Breathe deeply. Believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity. Be grounded on that new level. By believing, we can create the space for that to happen. We stop empowering the problem and begin to empower the solution, one that will be given to us. We do not worry about how it will happen. Do not worry about when it will happen. All we need will be given to us, done for us. We are in the process of becoming changed. All we need to do is believe. ”(p43 Codependents’ Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #4 - “Take care not to confuse unmanageability or insanity with the deep grief many of us experience when we come to this program. Many of us are facing losses and feel pain about these losses. This pain, this grief, is a healthy, normal response to our circumstances. We can allow ourselves to go through it without making ourselves miserable by blaming ourselves for grieving.”(p43 Codependents’ Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #5 - “We will be restored. We will be renewed. We will be lifted out of our present circumstances and into a solution, whether that involves a change of heart, a change of attitude, a new path, a new feeling, or a new vision of what we are to do. Sometimes this happens quickly. Sometimes it takes a while.”(p44 Codependents’ Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #6 - “Open ourselves to the belief that a new and better way will appear, and it will. Open ourselves, for one moment, to the possibility that a Higher Power can create a new way or a new situation or a solution, and we have set the stage for that to happen. Open ourselves to the possibility that we can be restored, and we shall begin that journey. ”(p44 Codependents’ Guide, M. Beattie)