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Using Step Two Online

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For All Recoverados Struggling to Take Step Two

"We Agnostics"? If that's you, there's reason to read on. No, we're not out to convert you, but we recognize how difficult it can be for people like us who've found ways to do ourselves and others in through addiction to learn to trust whatever we've thought of as our higher Power. This lens is intended to attract people towards a specific approach to coming to believe. It doesn't matter how you understand your Higher Power to be (or even if you're nowhere near understanding your Higher Power). It doesn't matter what drug of choice or compulsive experience you're seeking relief from. We're wishing you the strength from beyond yourself many of us have required to part company with our addictive crutches for a life of healing that the second step can bring.

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Important!

What's Step Two About?

"Developing trust in God or a Higher Power as we might or might not understand God or Higher Power."

Sharing Step-Two Resources Online

Take a daily 2X2 if it helps and leave the rest

Addicts using the twelve steps for sobriety and growth have left much wisdom on the web. Here's a place where you can recommend those you've found most helpful in guiding you through step two. If you've visited sites listed here, please feel free to vote them up or down as you rate them helpful and appropriate or not.

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Reflections of Step Two

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12 Steps of Recovery - Step 2 Believing in a Greater Power

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Step Two

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Second Step of DRA - Fellowship Discussion

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Step two of The 12 steps Twelve recovery program

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How I took Step 2 of AA's 12 Steps

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Steps by the Big Book - Step 2 - Steps by the Big Book, Workbook for the 12 Steps

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Step Two's About Learning to Trust

Most people who'd be attracted to this page probably already could recite the language of this step. If you've never encountered the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, we haven't asked them for permission to publish them here, so suggust you click there first.

As you may see, this step is about developing trust in God or a Higher Power as we might or might not understand God or Higher Power. This lens focuses on one online resource for doing daily second step work called 2X2.

This page's author has used a 2X2 approach for working step 2 in several different 12 step programs and wants to let other recoverados know how it's contributed to moving towards trust of ourselves and our higher Power.

2X2 As Used by Your Daily 2X2 Defined

We write two sentences. The first sentence comments about our lives' unmanageability or hopelessness. The second shares how trust in a power greater than ourselves brings us a tad closer to sanity.

So Where Do We Go To Share Second Step Progress 2X2s?

Recovery goes through a critical point from seeing powerlessness to the crucial decision to stop trying to be the master of the universe.

Yahoo Group Your Daily 2X2

The group logo featured here will lead to the group dedicated to sharing 2X2 shares about step 2 as suggested by 12-step recovery fellowships such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Alanon, Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Codependents Anonymous, and Sexual Compulsives Anonymous.

We don't mean to imply that any of these organizations has endorsed our group or our approach to the second step, and we invite people struggling with the second step regardless of which recovery fellowship(s) they affiliate with. This is about grassroots recovery community and about healing through participation and service.

Sample 2X2 Shares

From the Yahoo Group Your Daily 2X2

Here's how current members are sharing second step experience, strength, and hope using the 2X2 Formula. If you're sincerely desiring to work step two, consider joining.
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Like to try out writing your own 2X2 share right here?

Get a taste of a formula for expressing ideas about step 2.

Thanks for your visit here. In the spirit of a Daily 2X2, may we see clearly our lives' predicaments and find the strength to deal with things instead of fleeing into harmful delusions!

Your insight on how this site would better serve recoverados working step two would also be welcome.

  • Serenity_Prayer_Gifts Jul 9, 2011 @ 8:47 am | delete
    Thank you!
  • Anuther Recoverado Jun 27, 2011 @ 3:18 pm | delete
    I felt all confused about how to approach step two and learning to trust and believe. I got online, and here was this page.
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