Living Skills

12 Stepping

September 17, 2011

By Ileana A. On September 14th, five of The Family Foundation School interns, including myself, went on a trip to Princeton House in New Jersey. We shared their experience, strength, and hope with six adolescents who were attending a two-week program. The kids there talked about how they were afraid to leave and try to [...]

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Exit Letters

September 9, 2011

By Ileana A. For my last semester at The Family Foundation School, I’ve been enrolled in a Senior Living Skills class. Our first assignment was to write a “blueprint” of ourselves. This blueprint included our character defects and strengths, our everyday struggles, what triggers us, our emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health, and so on. [...]

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Reflecting on the Four Absolutes

June 29, 2011

June 2011 Day of Reflection By Ileana A. Friday, June 24th, 2011 The Family Foundation School had a Day of Reflection. Day of Reflection was started by Terry McCarthy, author of Tales from the Chicken Farm. The students dedicated their Friday to the Four Absolutes: Purity, Honesty, Unselfishness, and Love. The day started with a [...]

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The Here and Now

June 5, 2011

By Yana K. “Let’s have a moment of quiet, please.” On the first day of Living Skills, my teacher elaborately explained to the seven of us why he starts each class with these words. It’s pretty obvious that throughout every human being’s day, he or she is faced with obstacles. It’s very easy to get [...]

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Spiritual Awakening

April 22, 2011

By Yana K. “Step 12 – Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” Without a doubt, the first part of the 12th step, “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these [...]

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A friend of a different order

April 16, 2011

“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” by Yana K. The 11th step is considered a maintenance step; one that should be constantly worked. We only could have gotten this [...]

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Progress through Failure — Step 10

March 29, 2011

“Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted i.” By Yana K. Step 4 calls for us to make a searching a fearless moral inventory of ourselves. If we have done so to the best of our ability, we know how good it feels to let all of that go. However, [...]

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Building a Clean and Strong Foundation

March 23, 2011

Step 9. – Made direct amends to such people, wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. By Yana K. The people who wrote the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous knew what they were doing when they wrote about the “never” list in Step 9. Getting the easy stuff out of [...]

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