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therapy and 12-step sessions find this combination to be the fastest and easiest way to get well. Healing shame The key to healing a “wounded self” is to change the distorted, negative perspectives and reactions to our human emotions that result from having grown up in a dysfunctional, emotionally repressive and spiritually hostile environment. Most therapists agree that part of this healing process must involve grief. Grieving for the pain that caused the codependence and for the difficulties you suffered is a difficult but rewarding process. Learning to love yourself requires acknowledging your shame, disowning it, grieving the emotional damage you have sustained and healing the emotional wounds. { HYPERLINK "http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/what-is-codependence/" } The Twelve Traditions The Twelve Steps are accompanied by The Twelve Traditions of group governance as developed by Alcoholics Anonymous through its early formation. Most 12-step fellowships also adopted these principles as their structural governance. In AA, the empathetic desire to save other drunks resulted in a radical emphasis on service to other sufferers only. Thus “the only requirement for AA membership is the desire to stop drinking”. Similar membership guidelines were adopted by other fellowships, with particular emphasis on freedom from alcohol because of the formative history of these traditions (note that alcohol is considered a drug in most substance-related twelve-step groups). The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole. Each group has but one primary purpose to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. Meeting Process One of the most widely-recognized characteristics of twelve-step groups is the requirement that members focus on the admission that they "have a problem". In this spirit, many members open their address to the group along the lines of, "Hi, I'm Pam and I'm an alcoholic" — a catchphrase now widely identified with { HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_groups" \o "Support groups" }. Attendees at group meetings share their experiences, challenges, successes and failures, and provide peer support for each other. Many people who have joined these groups report they found success that previously eluded them, while others — including some ex-members — criticize their efficacy or universal applicability. This varied success rate, along with the fact that twelvestep programs have been associated with the belief in a higher power -- a belief often associated with religion -- has caused some controversy.
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