Dual Recovery with God

By Angela Menius

This book is a devotional, prayer, and dual sayings book for the dually diagnosed individual. It was put together by an individual who has dual disorders. The contents of the book comes from experiences of the individual and shares them with you. It talks about the steps, anger, graditute, self-talk, affirmations, God, Wisdom, amends, the whole you, and many other wonderful topics you will learn from and enjoy. It is designed for the dually diagnosed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 4, 2011
• ISBN: 9781257725618

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Dual Recovery with God

Meditation,

12 Step based,

Daily Devotions with God

Angela Menius

Copyright 2010©Angela Menius

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any former by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Lulu Publishing and its deer-design logo are registered Tran mark of Lulu Publishing.

9781257725618

Printed in the United States.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Introduction

A New Year

Acceptance

Addictive behaviors-Gods Help

Admit to God

Affirmations

Amends

Anger

Approval

Asking for Help

Awareness before Action

Begin in Recovery

Believe

Bipolar

Bitterness

Blessings of the Day

Came to Believe

Changes

Choices

Controlling

Cleanse

Courage and Character

Creative Activity

Crisis

Crisis Moments

Commitment

Confession

Denial

Depend on God

Dreams

Dual Disorders

Dual Disorders

Dual Disorders affects our Lives

Emotions

Empathy

Emptiness

Enthusiasm

Environment

Faith

Finding Balance

Finding God

First Step

Forgiveness

Foundation in Recovery

Glorious Opportunities

God Box

God Conscious

God Manages My Life

God’s Help

God is Love

God’s Program

Gods Voice

The Golden Rule

A Good Drug

Healing

Healing by Journaling

Hugs

Healing the Brokenness

Higher Power

Honesty

Imagination

Independence

Inspiration

Instability

Intimacy

Inventory

Journaling to Heal

Joy

Joy in your Life

Laughter

Learning to say No

Letting Go

The Light

Life is a process

Love

Love Myself

Made a Decision

Maintenance

Make Amends

Many Hats

Medications

Mindset

Mistakes

Moral Inventory

Nature

Negative thinking

New Beginnings

New Life

Never too late

Not Alone

No-Fault Illness

One Day At A Time

Organized

Over Time

Overwhelming

Pain

Pain in Recovery

Panic Attack

Past Tense

Patience and Rest

Pathway

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Power Then Myself

Powerful Secrets

Powerlessness

Prayer

Precious Gift

The Program

Psychiatric Medications

Purpose in Life

Purposeful living

Quite Time

Ready for the Program

Recurrent Issues

Relapse

Relationship with God

Restitution

Security

Seeking God

Self

Self-Control

Self-Protecting

Self-Talk

Serenity Prayer

Setting Goals

Speaking

Special Attributes

Step Twelve

Step Three

Step Twelve

Suicidal Thoughts

Supportive

Temporary Setback

Thinking Clearly

Tools for Recovery

Trust

Trusting His Guidance

Turn to God

Turning it Over

Turning Your Life Over to God

Twelfth Step

Understanding

Victory

Walk the Walk

What is Self-Talk

The Whole You

Winners in the Program

Wisdom

World of Dangers

You’re in the Right Place

Dedicated to Gail

My beloved daughter

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My life was unmanageable

I gave my life to the God of my understanding

I prayed everyday

I read my devotional everyday

I turned my life over to the care of God everyday

I went to meetings everyday

I listened to what the people said

I did what the people said to do

I hungered for what the winners had in their lives

I wanted what they had:

A life worth living

I felt better about myself

I had friends, which I did not have before

I lived the program of 12 steps

I did a thorough 4th and 5th step

I have a wonderful sponsor

My life is more manageable

God is the navigator of my life today

I love God today

Introduction

Do you long for a relationship with your Higher Power? Do you long to have more peace and serenity in your life? Do you truly desire a closer walk with the Devine One.? Would you like to face everyday with a positive outlook for the day?

Then you have come to the right place. I have put together devotions, meditations for you to read, each and everyday. They will inspire you, convict you, welcome you, boost you, reassure you, and much more.

The devotions, meditation have come from Gods word and placed in recovery words, so you can understand the meaning of them. The 12 Steps originated from the bible. So let us go back to the bible and find recovery.

You will find the peace you have always been looking for. You will find the serenity that you have always been looking for. The Holy Spirit will wash all over you with his white light to cleanse you and prepare you for Gods word.

As you continue to read the daily devotions, medications, you will find comfort in knowing that God is with you everyday. He never leaves your side. Even if you are having a really bad day, he is still with you, helping you through that hard day. He never leaves you. Always remember that. That should be a comfort to you. Never leaves you. Wow! I love that. That alone would get me through a day.

I remember the show, Touch by an Angel. They were having a very hard day. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I remember, Monica, the angel, going outside and sitting on a statue of a horse. She prayed to God. She said, Lord this has been a really rotten day. Nevertheless, I want to thank you for the day. You got us through the day. We are still alive, we had food to eat, and we are together to weather the storm. I do pray for a better day tomorrow. But thank you for today.

That touched my heart. I mean everything went wrong for the town’s people that day. Nevertheless, Monica prayed a prayer of thanksgiving. Could you have done that?

A New Year

Starting a new year is a good time to do a 4th and 5th step. It can be a New Year’s resolution of getting rid of the old and bringing in the new. However, we have to realize that we have had these defects for a long time. It will be hard to let them go.

We will have to grieve over the loss of these liabilities. It is like a death process. It won’t be easy. However, we will be working on replacing the old ways with new ways. It will be an ongoing process. Talk it through thoroughly with the person you are sharing the 5th step with at the time.

It will be a rewarding experience for you and the other person. After giving your fifth step, burn the writings. As the smoke goes up in the air, so does all the pain of the past.

Acceptance

Acceptance is the answer to all our problems. We cannot change people, places, or things. We have always thought we could and have tried in many directions to change people, places and things around us. We wanted to have them as our puppets and have them all played the way we wanted them to.

However, it never worked out that way. We found out that the secret was we could not. We had to take life on life’s terms whether we liked it or not. The one thing we could change is ourselves and our attitude towards people places, and things.

Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in Gods world by mistake, until we accepted our dual disorders, we could not stay sane and sober, unless we accepted life completely on life’s terms. I couldn’t be happy. I needed to concentrate not so much on what reeds to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.

When I first got sick, my family was in the dark to what was happening to me. They would get mad at me. They would tell me to straighten up. They would ask me what is a wrong with you? They would threaten me. They did not know that I I didn’t even have the answers for them. I didn’t even know what was going on with me. I didn’t know that I had