Curious of your thoughts on step 2.
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I'm leaning on my higher power for everything, and I do mean everything. Throughout the day, I'm praying for its will for me, rather than working from a place of fear. I'm noticing my higher power working in my life and acknowledging all of the ways that it has kept me safe and sane.
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That I need help outside myself. I think of sobriety like car maintenance, like a flat tire on the freeway.
Step 1. After driving for miles with a flat tire, hoping its not really flat, You finally admit you have a flat tire.
Step 2. You don't have a spare, you admit that you need help beyond what you're able to do in that situation.
Step 3. You call AAA, and trust they will come and help you, because that's what they do, they help stranded people.
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Man that is a great metaphor, thanks.
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It means a conscious continuous step for me. It says came to believe therefore, it is an action word that I have to do daily through every blessing I get it brings me closer to my God and shows that he is constantly restoring me to sanity.
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From both spiritual and practical perspectives, my take on step 2 is that it’s about having already admitted that you’re powerless, it’s about asking for help and that it takes more than willpower to start recovery— to restore your sanity, and shed the scaffolding holding up alcoholic beliefs.
The asking was also a way to have conversations about what I needed— my needs, boundaries and feelings, with myself.
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