Why I Pray In The Shower

My own Twelve Steps that I included in my book

1. Admitted that our fears, insecurities, and negative emotions made our lives miserable.

2. Came to believe that with the help of prayer, people, and hope we could overcome our fears and start to be happier in our lives.

3. Made a decision to try and believe in a creator that gave us the ability to be happy.

4. Took an honest look at our lives and what we needed to change about ourselves to be happy.

5. Talked openly and honestly with someone we trusted about things we regretted doing and the things we needed to change about             ourselves.

6. Became ready to work on these changes and to start being a better person than we were before.

7. Started trying to be a better person than we were before and as a result began to like ourselves and feel happier.

8. Tried to grow spiritually to help us love ourselves.

9. Told people we have hurt that we are sorry unless it would cause more pain.

10. Continued to change what we needed to about ourselves and kept trying to grow spiritually.

11. Continued to use prayer and people to help us and give us guidance and reassurance in our lives.

12. Having grown more spiritual we began helping others and started to love ourselves enough to be happy with who we are.

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Inspiration can be defined as “Divine guidance or influence exerted directly on the mind and soul.“  Sometimes we find this type of inspiration through people, a TV show, a magazine article, or a song, and sometimes we have to search within ourselves to find it, but it’s vitally important if we want to find greater happiness. It helps us to focus on the good and positive things in life and not the bad and negative things we often hear about. Inspiration can also help us believe in a creator I call God that will always be there to guide us and to influence us when we look both inwardly and outwardly for it.

Here is a song I like that definitely fills me with me inspiration.

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Did you ever wonder why some people seem to follow the same dysfunctional patterns over and over again? Most times it’s because they have only ever known one way of thinking, behaving, and reacting in life and never grew up emotionally. I became aware of some of my dysfunction by going to AA and practicing The Twelve Steps and although I didn’t fully realize it at the time, it helped me change my way of thinking, behaving, and how I reacted in life. The result of this was becoming a more spiritual and confident person than I was before and much happier in life. In my case this spiritual growth and what was really personal growth made me want to keep growing in these areas and as I did I began to see more and more how dysfunction not only effected me, but those around me.  Although my emotional growth took some time to catch up, I eventually became less fearful and insecure and didn’t display the levels of negative emotions that I held onto for so long. I worried a lot less about things. Didn’t become nearly as angry about the stuff I use to. Began to have less times when I was down and sad about something.  And I certainly stopped pitying myself over any unwanted circumstances that happened.  I also stopped being around people who were dysfunctional and started having relationships with people who were more positive in life. What is normalcy though? Well it depends. What one person thinks is normal can be quite different from what another person does, but one definition of normal that helps me understand it better is this one.  “Free from mental illness;sane.” Because I have experienced the opposite of this definition, I know today I’m living the type of normalcy that will help me continue to grow and be happier in life.

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All the “non” coincidences that have happened in my life so far, especially throughout my sobriety, help me believe more than ever that there is  something that will guide us and give us reassurance in life if we search for it.  In my book I wrote how when ever there are unwanted circumstances in my life, I use the tools of prayer, people, and hope to help me get through them.  Recently on a day when my current circumstances were not the best, and my belief in myself and a Creator wasn’t as strong as it usually is,  I once again used these three tools to help me. First I prayed for the guidance and reassurance I needed that day and then went to work feeling a little sad, but trying to believe as hard as I could that I would get what I prayed for.  Only a few hours later Traci showed up and after some small talk, I opened up about my book and my plans to go out and help others.  I also told her how I was feeling and when I no sooner finished telling her this, she looked at me and said she does book reviews and she would be glad to read my book and write a review of it on her blog.  Of course I realized she would need to like it for it to get a good review, but by then I had already developed a strong belief that I wrote a great book and knew she would like it. I truly believe this was just another of the many “non” coincidences that has happened in my life.  I want to thank Traci for her help. I also want to say to those who are currently going through tough times, that there is a reason for everything that happens in our life and even when we’re not sure why we’re going through some of the things we do, if we choose to, we can get through them and come out the other side with a stronger belief in ourselves.  I must add that unwanted circumstance are happening less in my life and this along with the “non” coincidences that continue to happen, make me believe more and more that there is a Creator that gave me the ability to be all right even when things aren’t.

You can read the review by clicking the link below.

Traci Taylor’s Warm 103  Radio Book Reviews

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