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Step Nine: Repairing the Past
by AnonymousThis pamphlet shows us how to get started on Step Nine, &“Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.&” It suggests ways to make amends—what we must do to mend our relationships successfully.Step Nine calls you into action. It tells you how to take responsibility for the behavior that accompanied your addiction, also called substance use disorder. In this pamphlet, you'll learn how to work to restore the relationships you have harmed. It outlines the importance of amends, and shows how to make them. It addresses exceptions and ways to resolve pain and anger. You&’ll find that when you do Step Nine, your feelings of guilt, remorse, fear, and shame begin to diminish. And you strengthen your recovery.
Step Off!: My Journey from Mimbo to Manhood
by Dan CorteseRecognized from Seinfeld and MTV, Dan Cortese now gives readers a personal and humorous look at the life and career of an American TV actor and host Fans of Veronica's Closet, MTV Sports, What I Like About You, 8 Simple Rules, and Castle will relish this exclusive account of Dan’s life and career. Step Off! is a hilarious look inside the eccentric experiences of a Hollywood favorite. He discusses life from his own honest, outrageous Hollywood perspective. Cortese shares the lessons he's learned—and a few he hasn’t—working on screen for over two decades as an American actor. He also reveals details about his most rewarding job: being a father. Step Off! is a side-splitting, heart-warming journey through Dan’s life and career, showing the hilarious and memorable aspects of acting, fame, and striving to be a super dad. Follow the actor’s path from working in a steel mill in Pittsburgh, to the rock-climbing "Mimbo" on Seinfeld, to his life as a father of three. You’re sure to laugh with this noteworthy celebrity book from Dan Cortese.
Step One: Admitting Powerlessness
by AnonymousThis pamphlet covers AA&’s Step One, &“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.&” This admission is the foundation of recovery, but it&’s something we can&’t do alone."The First Step is where what was impossible starts to become possible. For people with addiction, also called substance use disorder, the First Step is where the miracle of recovery begins. Step One is the essential key that unlocks the door to sobriety. It offers a choice. You can remain in your addiction, or you can walk through to a new life that begins with Step One. In recovery from substance use disorder, the First Step is taken many times. People in recovery go back to it regularly to remind themselves how they&’ve stayed in recovery and what&’s at stake if they return to use. Step One is the bedrock of recovery."
Step Out of Your Story: Writing Exercises to Reframe and Transform Your Life
by Kim SchneidermanREFRAME YOUR STORY, RECLAIM YOUR LIFE Every day we relate stories about our highs and lows, relationships and jobs, heartaches and joys. But do we ever consider the choices we make about how to tell our story? In this groundbreaking book, Kim Schneiderman shows us that by choosing a version that values life lessons and meaningful personal victories we can redirect our energy and narrative toward our desires and goals. It presents character development workouts and life-affirming, liberating exercises for retelling our stories to find redemptive silver linings and reshape our lives. As both a therapist and a writer, Schneiderman knows the power of story. By employing the storytelling techniques she offers, you’ll learn to view your life as a work in progress and understand big-picture story lines in ways that allow you to easily steer your actions and relationships toward redefined — and realistic — “happy endings.”
Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges
by Byron PittsIt was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room. "Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it." If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Pitts, your son cannot read. " In Step Out on Nothing, Byron Pitts chronicles his astonishing story of overcoming a childhood filled with obstacles to achieve enormous success in life. Throughout Byron's difficult youth - his parents separated when he was twelve and his mother worked two jobs to make ends meet - he suffered from a debilitating stutter. But Byron was keeping an even more embarrassing secret: He was also functionally illiterate. For a kid from inner-city Baltimore, it was a recipe for failure. Pitts turned struggle into strength and overcame both of his impediments. Along the way, a few key people "stepped out on nothing" to make a difference for him - from his mother, who worked tirelessly to raise her kids right and delivered ample amounts of tough love, to his college roommate, who helped Byron practice his vocabulary and speech. Pitts even learns from those who didn't believe in him, like the college professor who labeled him a failure and told him to drop out of college. Through it all, he persevered, following his steadfast passion. After fifteen years in local television, he landed a job as a correspondent for CBS News in 1998, and went on to become an Emmy Award - winning journalist and a contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes. Not bad for a kid who couldn't read. From a challenged youth to a reporting career that has covered 9/11 and Iraq, Pitts's triumphant and uplifting story will resonate with anyone who has felt like giving up in the face of seemingly insurmountable hardships.
Step Seven: Asking Humbly
by AnonymousIn preparing to take Step Seven, &“Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings,&” it may be hard to believe that our shortcomings can be taken away. Yet we only need ask; the rest is up to our Higher Power. This pamphlet also explains what it means to be humble.Humility is a spiritual practice, a muscle you&’ve been strengthening through all the Steps that came before. What seemed impossible when you were using substances now seems doable. Upon taking the Seventh Step, you will find that you no longer have a need to hide from others or compare yourself to others. You will be able to deepen the new practice of really accepting and loving yourself.
Step Six: Being Ready
by AnonymousIn preparing for Step Six, &“Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character,&” it may be hard to believe that our defects will be removed. This pamphlet explains that we need only to be ready and provides tips on how to get there.Becoming entirely ready is an act of faith. In Step Six, you are becoming ready to ask your Higher Power to change you, having no idea just how you will be changed or what you will be like afterward. When you can surrender to this reality, you will find new hope. Once you are entirely ready to have God remove all your defects of character, you can stop treating yourself and the people around you in destructive ways. This pamphlet outlines the process of taking Step Six, where we begin by seeing ourselves as we really are, then surrendering, and finally letting go.
Step Ten: Maintaining Your New Life
by AnonymousThis pamphlet details how and why to do the work of Step Ten, &“Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.&” Through the discipline of daily inventory, we learn to protect and strengthen our recovery.You&’ve already conducted your moral inventory in Step Four to settle with the past. The Tenth Step self-examination helps you stay aware of how your recovery is progressing over time. Learn about effective ways to take a personal inventory, make corrections on a daily basis, and recognize the pitfalls of skipping this important Step. You&’ll see just why continual vigilance is necessary in order to achieve freedom and serenity in recovery.
Step Three: Making a Decision
by AnonymousThis pamphlet covers AA&’s Step Three: &“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.&” It goes into the obstacles that many find to making that decision, as well as how to overcome them.Step Three is one of the most important of the Twelve Steps. For some, it can also be one of the most challenging, since it has the &“God&” word in it and it refers to God as male. To decide if you&’re ready to take the Third Step, think back on the work you&’ve done on Steps One and Two. You don&’t have to have completed these Steps perfectly before moving on to Step Three, but the Third Step will not be of much help to you unless you&’ve already done some serious work on the first two Steps. Steps One and Two prepare you to make this decision about Step Three. All you need to begin is to be willing. Your aim is &“progress, not perfection.&”
Step Twelve: Carrying the Message
by AnonymousThis pamphlet examines Step Twelve, &“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.&” In this Step, we give back some of what we&’ve gained.This basic truth sums up Step Twelve: you can&’t keep it without giving it away. For generations, people with addiction, also known as substance use disorder, tried many things to stay sober, from religion to therapy. The pioneers of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) had a brilliant insight: they could stay sober by putting their spiritual principles into action by helping others like themselves—people with addiction. This pamphlet summarizes the Twelfth Step mandate to carry the message of your spiritual awakening to others with substance use disorder. Carrying the message is one of the best ways to maintain your sobriety. It demonstrates how Step Twelve is the most joyous of the Steps to live, that participating in the recovery of others is one of the fruits of your own hard-won recovery. As you pass on the message of recovery to others—and learn more about yourself in the process—you experience the joy that comes from helping others and nurturing your own spiritual growth.
Step Two: Coming to Believe
by AnonymousThis pamphlet covers AA&’s Step Two: &“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity,&” highlighting the Step&’s importance and challenges, as well as what the spiritual nature of the program can mean to different people.Step Two is important business. It&’s where you begin to find or renew your relationship with a loving, guiding Power you can really trust. This Step may seem especially difficult the first time you encounter it. But it&’s worth the time and energy to do Step Two well. By completing the Step, you become more spiritually aware, recognize the difference between sanity and insanity, and discover a special peace. You learn to trust the process of recovery.
Step Up: Unpacking Steps 1-3 with Someone Who's Been There
by Michael GraubartTwelve Step programs can sometimes be intimidating. Before you walk into that meeting, you want to know the scoop and what it’s really like to work a Twelve Step recovery program. Michael Graubart is here to tell you.“Michael is a master wordsmith as well as an inspirational and thought-provoking storyteller for the Twelve Step community.” —Wally P., author and originator of the Back to Basics book and meetings If you’re ready to take the first steps in a new direction, you don’t have to walk them alone. Step up to your best life, alongside the millions of people who have embraced Twelve Step programs as a way to gratefully recover from their substance use, alcoholism, and addictions. In Step Up: Unpacking Steps One, Two, and Three with Someone Who’s Been There, the first book in Hazelden Publishing’s Step In to Recovery Series, Michael Graubart provides straightforward explanations on working a Twelve Step program, starting with the first three Steps. Graubart honestly addresses the most common questions about the Twelve Step fellowship. As someone who’s been where you are today, he shows you what it’s like to not only maintain sobriety, but to find a different way of life through a Twelve Step program.
Step by Step to College and Career Success (3rd edition)
by John N. Gardner Betsy O. BarefootThis book was created to provide an accessible book that would be useful to all students, whatever their backgrounds or their college goals. Students are most likely to succeed if they follow the twelve steps covered in this text.
Step by Step to College and Career Success (Advantag Ser.)
by John N. Gardner Besty O. BarefootDo you want a compact college success book with robust technology coverage? Gardner’s user-friendly, class-tested, and authoritatively research-based Step by Step to College and Career Success is for you! This is the briefest title in the Gardner family of books, and the authors have focused on the most crucial skills and the most important choices students make in order to succeed in college and beyond.
Step by Step: Daily Meditations for Living the Twelve Steps
by Muriel ZinkSince Muriel Zink began her own recovery work over thirty years ago, many people in self-help and anonymous recovery programs have shared their concern with her about finding concrete, practical ways to use the Twelve Step model, developed originally by Alcoholics Anonymous.In STEP BY STEP, Muriel devotes each month of the year to an in-depth exploration of one of the Twelve Steps, with daily entries. The steps are presented in the chronological order of the months, though any of the meditations can be used out of sequence. No matter where we are in our recovery, these wise, inspiring messges and meditations can help us "step" our way to healthier, more productive lives.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life
by Patrice VecchioneStep outside your door and reconnect with nature. From the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life comes a guide that will replenish your connection to the earth and inspire you to develop and strengthen your imagination.The natural world has inspired artists, seekers, and thinkers for millennia, but in recent times, as the pace of life has sped up, its demands have moved us indoors. Yet nature's capacity to lead us to important truths, to invigorate and restore our imagination and equilibrium, is infinite. Step into Nature makes nature personal again by stimulating awareness and increasing our understanding of the environment. But being in nature doesn't mean flying off to remote, faraway places. Nature is as close as opening your front door--and opening your heart to the sky above, the miniature gardens that push their way up between the sidewalk cracks in our cities, and the small stream just down the road. Patrice Vecchione demonstrates how nature can support and enhance your creative output, invigorate your curiosity, and restore your sense of connection to and love of the earth. Included throughout the book is "The Cabinet of Curiosities," exercises and suggestions for practical and unexpected ways to stimulate your imagination, deepen your relationship with nature, and experience the harmony between creativity and the natural world.
Step into Your Moxie: Amplify Your Voice, Visibility, and Influence in the World
by Alexia VernonPREPARE TO TRANSFORM YOUR VOICE AND BE HEARD Step into Your Moxie is a soul-stirring call to action to speak up for yourself and the ideas and issues that matter most to you. Dubbed a “Moxie Maven” by President Obama’s White House Office of Public Engagement for her potent approach to women’s empowerment, Alexia Vernon has helped thousands of women (and men) slay diminishing self-talk and cultivate confidence. She has created a timely, refreshingly playful guide for women to communicate with candor, clarity, compassion, and ease every time they open their mouths to speak — in their careers, communities, and homes. Step into Your Moxie is the book women want by their side as they have that daring conversation, give an important presentation, run for office, or simply tell the people closest to them to step back from the boundaries they’ve trespassed.
Step-by-Step Spirituality for Deacons
by PhD Eddie EnsleyIn this book, Deacon Eddie Ensley explores ways that permanent deacons can enrich their prayer and ministry through “lectio divina,” a renewed appreciation for the “Liturgy of the Hours,” and entering into a fuller sense of “diakonia.” The stories and insights in this book are truly tools for faith enrichment and “becoming one with God” in prayer and ministry.
Stepcoupling: Creating and Sustaining a Strong Marriage in Today's Blended Family
by Susan Wisdom Jennifer GreenLove may be sweeter the second time around, but once the bliss of a newfound relationship wears off a little, the reality of being part of a stepfamily sets in. If you are one of the millions of remarried Americans facing the challenge of blending two existing families into one cohesive whole, you are part of a stepcouple--and you know all too well how hard it can be to make your marriage work in sometimes tough terrain. Different parenting styles, finances, relationships with ex-spouses, legal matters, and even seemingly simple issues such as the kinds of chores assigned to children can chisel away at your union if you don't always make your marriage a priority. Stepcoupling offers advice for stepcouples on how to do just that--all the while strengthening their blended family with a healthy marriage. Susan Wisdom and Jennifer Green provide tips and strategies on dealing with the issues remarried couples face, with a wealth of advice from real-life stepcouples, such as: * Learning to tailor your expectations of your spouse or children and remembering that no family is perfect * Knowing where your boundaries are, whether involving a hostile ex-spouse or a stepchild who demands too much attention * Realizing that traits like flexibility, tolerance, forgiveness, and openness are especially essential in a stepfamily situation * Making "us" time for talking, problem-solving, weekends away, and enjoying your marriage to constantly renew and strengthen your bond as a couple Let this invaluable remarriage manual help you make your stepcouple the foundation of a strong, happy, and successful stepfamily. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Steph Curry: Life Lessons from a Legend (Life Lessons from a Legend)
by Sean Deveney“Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I’m going to make it.“From the smallest kid on every team to the game-changing, record-breaking NBA All-Star he is today, Steph Curry’s journey to stardom is a master class in excellence. Bolstered by what he calls his irrational confidence, the “baby-faced assassin” shattered expectations and accrued millions of fans as he led the Golden State Warriors to championship after championship, garnered multiple MVP awards, and emerged as the greatest 3-point shooter of all time. Steph Curry: Life Lessons from a Legend gives you courtside seats to the incredible highs and lows of his phenomenal career.- Inspiring quotes from Curry himself - A biographical look at Curry’s early years, his rise to fame, and his most spectacular achievements - Original full-color art that captures the spirit of a champion - Guiding truths and hard-earned lessons to help you crush your own goals
Stepping Into The Magic: A New Approach to Everyday Life
by Gill EdwardsDeveloping the ideas contained in her first book, LIVING MAGICALLY, Gill Edwards presents a new approach to everyday life which questions our old assumptions and introduces a new vision of reality. STEPPING INTO THE MAGIC is about having a foot in both worlds - walking with the right foot in the practical reality of everyday life, while using the left to tread the world of the shaman, mystic, visionary, map-maker and co-creator.Learn how to:* Creat success in your life* Grow through joy rather than struglle* Harmonise your three inner selves* Develop you psychic skills* Fulfil your true potentialBy blending the two worlds into one, we begin to heal the age old divisions between spirit and matter, earth and heaven, masculine and feminine, individuality and oneness.
Stepping Into The Magic: A new approach to everyday life
by Gill EdwardsDeveloping the ideas contained in her first book, LIVING MAGICALLY, Gill Edwards presents a new approach to everyday life which questions our old assumptions and introduces a new vision of reality. STEPPING INTO THE MAGIC is about having a foot in both worlds - walking with the right foot in the practical reality of everyday life, while using the left to tread the world of the shaman, mystic, visionary, map-maker and co-creator.Learn how to:* Creat success in your life* Grow through joy rather than struglle* Harmonise your three inner selves* Develop you psychic skills* Fulfil your true potentialBy blending the two worlds into one, we begin to heal the age old divisions between spirit and matter, earth and heaven, masculine and feminine, individuality and oneness.
Stepping Lightly
by Mark A. BurchWhile the voluntary simplicity movement has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, it is still often stereotyped as being mainly concerned with a thrifty lifestyle. But simple living has much deeper implications than just cleaning closets or selling off a second car. In Stepping Lightly, Mark Burch considers the deeper rewards of voluntary simplicity for individuals, and how the practice of simple living can be an essential part of the solution to our social and environmental problems. Thoughtful and eloquent, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in committing themselves to stepping lightly into a more sustainable future.
Stepping Out Of Line
by Nell MerlinoWhen activist Nell Merlino decides something needs to change, she throws everything she has into changing it, whether it is raising the visibility of girls or helping women build their microbusinesses into million-dollar enterprises. Her many campaigns have helped women make dreams come true and STEPPING OUT OF LINE is Merlino's bold manifesto for women to get what they want in their lives. A true force of nature, Merlino doesn't wait for the world to change first--she shows women how to imagine a bigger life: more power, more money, more freedom, more love, and more happiness. Merlino uses her own successes, both public and personal, as a model and tells the stories of other women who have changed their lives by starting businesses, finding mates, working at home, even changing the world. Every change that has allowed women greater freedom today began with one woman making a different choice. What if we all stepped out of line and just stopped waiting?
Stepping Out Within: A Practical Guide to Relationships and Transformation
by Robert W. OlsenStepping Out Within has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.