Dr. Mary Anne Fifield, CSAT, CAS, LMFT.
Therapy for Individuals in Recovery
Stepping Free
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Stepping Free: Step One
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. Discovery 1-3: We admitted we were powerless over X and our lives had become unmanageable. And helpless, no matter what we tried, we still remained unable to stop our behavior. We could not “just say no.” And so, we became…
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Stepping Free: Step Two
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Came to believe… THAT a power great than ourselves could restore us to sanity. We come to a place in our personal journey when we are forced by circumstances to look somewhere other than ourselves to find what we don’t…
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Stepping Free: Step Three
3. Made a decision to turn our will and out lives over to the care of God as we understand Him. Make a decision! The choice of our will. Ignore the feelings of doubt and confusion, the mental gyrations about how it can work, just decide to act as if this will work and see…
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Stepping Free: Step Four
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Inventory: Purpose of inventory: – acquire deeper self-knowledge that can lead us to self-acceptance. To face the truth about our behavior. To identify our behavior patterns so we can surrender them to God and ask Him to make lasting changes in us. Can’t change what…
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Stepping Free: Step Five
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. This Step breaks the shame cycle and exposes false guilt. The miracle of change happens when we muster the courage to confess to someone what we have uncovered in our Fourth Step. Then, and only then, can God’s…