Step 12 Of Recovery
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, October 2nd, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, October 2nd, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
STEP TWELVE – “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Sexaholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” At this point in our recovery process, we must be practicing the first two maintenance steps, Steps Ten and Eleven, to the best of […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, September 26th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
STEP ELEVEN “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.” Step Ten, the first of the maintenance steps: 1. Suggests taking a daily personal inventory and when we are wrong, promptly […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, September 11th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
STEP TEN –“Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the acquired character defects that brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy. Step Five allowed us to share with God and another person the exact nature of our wrongs. Steps […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, September 5th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
STEP NINE – “Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” In the preceding step, Step Eight, we compiled a list of ALL people that we have harmed and also those people that we believed have harmed us. This list contains the names of people […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Sunday, August 30th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
STEP EIGHT – “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” In Step Four we made a searching and fearless moral inventory. If we did Step Four thoroughly, one of the by-products was a list of most or all the people that we had harmed. […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Thursday, August 27th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
STEP SEVEN – “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings” In the doing and living of Steps One and Two, a degree of humility, no matter how slight, was necessary when we admitted that we (the acquired false self) were powerless over lust and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
STEP SIX – “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” In doing Step Four honestly, we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our character defects. Also, after we completed Step Five, the exact nature of our wrongs were then brought out into the open. Using both the lists […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, August 14th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Step 5 – “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” In Step Four we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of the acquired character defects. The inventory from Step Four details the acquired character defects which are of the false self. These defects, when the […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Thursday, August 6th, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Step Four – “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” In the previous three steps, we have built, for ourselves, a beginning foundation in this sex addiction counseling program of recovery. In Step One, we admitted we were powerless over lust and recognized that our lives have been, are now, and will […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Friday, July 31st, 2015 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” In Step One, we admitted that we were powerless over lust and that we could not manage our lives in the addiction. Also, in Step One we admit that we cannot manage our lives on […]