CODEPENDENCE - DEAN AMORY

esponsibly for ourselves, for our own
feelings, mistakes, and successes. We
become responsible for our part in
relationship to others.
9. We make a list of persons to whom
we want to make amends and
commence to do so, except where
doing so would cause further pain for
others.
10. We continue to work our program,
each day checking out our progress and
asking for feedback from others in our
attempt to recover and grow. We do
this through support groups.
11. We seek through our own power
and a Higher Power, awareness of our
inner selves. We do this through
reading, listening, meditation, sharing,
and other ways of centering and getting
in touch with our inner selves.
12. Having experienced the power of
growing toward wholeness, we find our
bodies, minds, and spirits awakened to
a new sense of physical and emotional
relief which leaves us open to a new
awareness of Spirituality. We seek to
explore our meaning in life by honest
sharing with others, remember that
BECOMING WHO WE ARE is a lifetime
task which must be done one day at a
time.
wonder of life and the blessings we do
have.
10. We continue to trust our reality
and daily affirm that we see what we
see, we know what we know, and we
feel what we feel.
11. We promptly acknowledge our
mistakes and make amends when
appropriate, but we do not say we are
sorry for things we have not done and
we do not cover up, analyze, or take
responsibility for the shortcomings of
others.
12. We seek out situations, jobs, and
people that affirm our intelligence,
perceptions, and self-worth and avoid
situations or people who are hurtful,
harmful, or demeaning to us.
13. We take steps to heal our physical
bodies, organize our lives, reduce
stress, and have fun.
14. We seek to find our inward calling,
and develop the will and wisdom to
follow it.
15. We accept the ups and downs of
life as natural events that can be used
as lessons for growth.
16. We grow in awareness that we are
interrelated with all living things, and
we contribute to restoring peace and
balance on the planet.