Recovering from 2020: Using the 12-Step Model to Process the Year of 2020

By Nicola M. Hurst

Have you felt overwhelmed with the many challenges and changes the year 2020 delivered us? So, many people have lost loved ones, relationships, careers, and jobs just to mention a few of the major challenges. The world has had to wake up to a major paradigm shift and it has left many trying to figure out how to navigate this great shift.

“Recovering From 2020” was written to help you take each step of recreating your life by using tools that are already in your midst. Using this 12-step model “Recovering from 2020” is tailored to help you approach the shifts, changes, and losses of 2020. It is written to help you take the painful moments and find resilience. Along with the steps, “Recovering From 2020” outlines the difference between Normal Grief and Complicated Grief with a message to move through grief into resilience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665514491

Nicola M. Hurst

(Please bold the 'Life Alchemy Life Coaching') Nicola is the Founder and CEO of Life Alchemy Life Coaching. She is an Alchemist of Energy, Recovery Coach, Minister and Healer. She holds a B.A. from Paul Quinn College in Sociology with a minor in Psychology and Music. Nicola completed a second B.A. in Metaphysics from the University of Sedona. She received her Master of Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary with an emphasis in Recovery Counseling and is completing her thesis for her Master’s in Metaphysics. She is a Ph.D. Candidate for her Doctorate in Metaphysical Psychology. Nicola has been an experienced, licensed and ordain minister for nearly 40 years in Christianity and 5 years in Metaphysics. www.nhalchemy.com

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CONTENTS

STEP ONE

Admitted we were powerless over the effects of the world’s events at this time and that our lives had become difficult or unmanageable due to these events.

STEP TWO

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could help restore us to sanity.

STEP THREE

Decided to turn our lives to the care of Spirit as we understand Spirit and the help that is available to us when it is offered.

STEP FOUR

Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves.

STEP FIVE

Admitted to Spirit, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our issues.

STEP SIX

We were entirely ready to have these issues changed in our lives.

STEP SEVEN

Became willing to allow Source to walk you through the release of issues that challenge you.

STEP EIGHT

Made a list of all persons who we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

STEP NINE

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

STEP TEN

Open yourself to Source/Higher Power for the New.

STEP ELEVEN

Continue to take a personal inventory of yourself, and when you are wrong, promptly admit it.

STEP TWELVE

Share the Way

Doing Grief Work

Things to Remember as you Process Through Grief and the Events of 2020

Active Emotional Coping Versus Avoidant Emotional Coping

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