What advice or steps do folks have on discovering their own higher power?
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You could find folks whom you look up to and discuss their higher power. Perhaps also start by thinking about the qualities your higher power would possess.
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Seek and you will find, my brother!
Sounds almost like a nonanswer, but it is THE answer. Be teachable, be humble, and seek a path of steady spiritual growth. Pray often.
More will be revealed. The answers will come. 
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Hi Evan, I was raised catholic. After I got sober the first time, I was highly involved in a non-denominational church. 2 very different views of God. Life happened, things did not go as planned and I got angry at God. Now I have reflected on live and personal views and my vision of my Higher has changed. In my experience it is a prospective that will evolve, a lot like any other relationship. The chapter We Agnostics in the big book helped. Stay strong.
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A Higher Power doesn't have to be what any one religion, creed or ethos states it is - it just has to be anything at all which is bigger than me. Something outside of myself. Clearly, as I accepted, I was unable to do anything about my drinking myself. It was suggested I needed to put my faith in something greater than me!
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Read the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Lots of information about a HP in there.
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The 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous entire purpose is to help you find a HP. The 12th step starts “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps…”
Do the steps, find a HP. That’s how it worked for me and millions of others.
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A higher power is a power greater than myself. In my early sobriety my understanding was just that. The community of AA. I used this power to get clean and stay clean. As I evolved so did my understanding of MY higher power.
I hope this helps🙏
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What are your core beliefs on the subject? I only ask because if you do not have a belief in a "god", don't force it. You don't have to believe in god to stay sober.
Someone mentioned "We Agnostics" in the big book, and if you are truly agnostic or even atheist as I am, you will find this chapter to be condescending and largely rubbish. Basically it tells you that you will eventually come to the belief in God if you work at it.
I just look at a higher power as other people's experiences, as well as myself on my best day. No magic, or nonsense, asking someone else to remove the things about myself that I don't like.
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Meditation
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