Day 36.
The first lecture was on the 12 promises. It made me think about how important it is to complete the first 5 steps and how the 12 steps is always evolving.
Recovery is a process of change, and as my faith grows in God, my life will get better, hoping for a better life, and love myself and others.
This also made me realise how important it is to keep strong within the fellowship, welcome support from other fellows and provide support and service back.
The DBT session was also useful. The wisdom of tolerance, stress/trauma and freeze response. The DBT tools I have been learning will be essential in preventing a relapse, alongside my home group and sponsor.
In the group, I shared my Step 2. Received good feedback about how I came to believe in my higher power. I was asked not to read the questions and answers, but to summarise my thoughts on the step. Later in the day though, I felt I had missed out on some of the key points. Mainly in the past, when I believed in a power greater than me, caring for me.
I will try sharing Step 3 tomorrow and bring up what I missed about Step 2, as I feel I would like feedback from my group on this.
I also helped sort out all the pigeon holes today, emptying the unused ones and putting new labels on all of them. Ready for the new peers coming into the castle over the next few days. It feels warm to do daily service for the community.
Time to evolve and not revolve!
