Summary: <a href="http://therecoveryshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2105087852_5019d21197_o.jpg"></a>Start where you are. When change comes, as it always does, it helps to know who you are.<br> <br> * Why is it important to know “who I am”?<br> * What does it mean to know “who I am”?<br> * How have the Steps helped me in knowing myself? (Step 4 is the obvious one, but what about the others?)<br> <br> * Step 1: starting to break through denial. My image of my life is not realistic.<br> * Step 2: Starting to see that I am not the center of the universe, and that I can ask for help.<br> * Step 3: Recognizing how much I want “my will”. Making a decision to ask for help, to follow outside direction. How hard it is!<br> * Step 4: Looking in detail at myself, admitting my assets and my shortcomings.<br> * Step 5: How much I really don’t want to expose my “failings”! How much I fear your judgement.<br> * Step 6: Coming to own my inventory. Starting to recognize some of the “why” about what I do (and don’t do).<br> * Step 7: Humility: I can be teachable.<br> * Step 8: Recognizing the ways in which my shortcomings have caused me to harm others, whether deliberately or by oversight.<br> * Step 9: Seeing my shame, my fear of rejection, my fear of judgement. And also my courage and honesty.<br> * Step 10: Continuing to know myself more deeply.<br> * Step 11: Getting in touch with my own spirit, getting “out of my head”. Who am I when I’m not “chattering” away in my mind all the time?<br> * Step 12: Recognizing the ways in which I have awakened.<br> <br> <br> <br> Please call us at 734-707-8795 or email <a title="Send us mail" href="mailto:feedback@therecoveryshow.com">feedback@therecoveryshow.com</a> with your questions or experience, strength and hope. Or just leave a comment right here.<br> The reading in this episode is from Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön.<br> <br> Music from the show<br> Jimmy Eat World: The Middle<br> <br> Gnarls Barkley: Crazy<br> <br> India.Arie: I Choose<br> <br> <br> <br>
