Tag: higher power
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A Spiritual Awakening

I hear that this is key to my recovery, but what is a spiritual awakening and why is it so important? For me, awakening means becoming aware of something. I’m waking up, or becoming conscious. What do I need to become aware of? At first it was that I was an alcoholic. But that was…
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The Higher Power

Nothing and I mean nothing bothered me more about recovery than the higher power. Just prior to getting sober, my concept of a higher power consisted of fear, contempt and a belief that I had to think and be a certain way to avoid the fires of hell. I was raised in a half agnostic…
