Twelve Step Reflections

Addiction Recovery, Healing, and Prevention - Notes from Nannette

Struggling? Don’t Abandon Your Resolution—Check Your Motivation!

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I can do this!  Do it for the clothes—the skinny jeans, the juniors section of Kohls, shopping on the right side of the Dress Barn.  Do it for the concerned people in my life—my husband, my mother, my kids…think of the kids.  Then there’s my doctor. I could do it for him, for my heart, my knees, my ... Read More

Point of Choice – Step 11 Personal Revelation

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I want to wake up early and spend time with the Lord before I spend the day with His siblings.  I’ve struggled with this desire my whole adult life.  I like the idea of “early up” when I’m “up,” but many a morning I battle against “early up” ‘because I’m “down” snuggled in my covers.  This morning ... Read More

You don’t have to be a Hinckley Scholar to use the tools of reading and writing!

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I never imagined that reading and writing would become so important to me. I wasn’t an early reader and even to this day I can read faster aloud than silently. My elementary school grades in reading and spelling always remained in the B/C range. I grew up when phonics instruction was nonexistent. ... Read More

“______ ! The Herald Angels Sing” – Step 11 – Personal Revelation

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Ethan, at age five, had his own version of the traditional Christmas Carol, “Hark, The Herald Angles Sing.” I find his rendition instructive any time of year. As he could not relate in any way to the word “Hark,” he filled in with a word that rhymed and also made perfect sense to him. Ethan simply ... Read More

Likening ALL Scripture Unto Myself – It Takes Courage! – Scripture Study

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One Sunday during the sacrament I prayed about what I might repent of. The answer that came to my mind was prompted directly by my Gospel Doctrine study that week. The prompting I received was that I needed to liken myself unto the “prayerless ponderers” I had just read about in 2 Nephi 32. What ... Read More