Our unique model – The 12 Steps of Emotional Sobriety

First and foremost, Rhapsody is a place of refuge, a safe haven in the stormy sea we call life. Everything is taken care of so that you can focus entirely on the deep inner work you need to do. We have found through working with addicts and alcoholics that physical sobriety on its own is not enough. Our same old ideas that failed in the past are miserably ineffective in dealing with life on life’s terms going forward. We revert very quickly to our reactive, fearful, and emotionally unbalanced selves, and our lives become unmanageable once again.

Yet if the 12 steps can work on something as destructive as dependency on alcohol or drugs, why then shouldn’t they work on our other crippling emotional dependencies? Depression, self-loathing, codependency, loneliness, rage, and despair have touched us all in one way or another and we see so much suffering seemingly without any hope of relief. Is it possible to be free?
At Rhapsody we try to provide a support system for those who are on this path towards wholeness, those who have the courage and willingness to do the work but nevertheless remain extremely vulnerable. We don’t have the power to fix anyone but we are a living example of what this power can do.

Here are the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as they relate to emotional sobriety –

STEP 1 – We admitted that we could not control our emotional nature, that we were prone to misery and depression – our lives had become unmanageable.
STEP 2 – Came to believe that our Higher Power could restore us to sanity.
STEP 3 – Made a decision to hand our emotional nature over to the care and management of our Higher Power.
STEP 4 – Made a fearless and thorough inventory of our emotional dependencies and their crippling consequences.
STEP 5 – Shared our emotional inventory with a trusted spiritual friend.
STEP 6 – Became entirely ready for our Higher Power to reconfigure our emotions and release us from our emotional bondage.

STEP 7 – Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings and restore us to sanity.

STEP 8 – Made a list of all those we had harmed, including ourselves.
STEP 9 – Made amends to all those we had harmed except when to do so would cause further harm.

STEP 10 – Continued to take emotional inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

STEP 11 – Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power praying only for knowledge of his will and the power to carry it out.

STEP 12 – Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of working these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice emotional sobriety in all our affairs.
Our unique mode – The 12 steps of Emotional Sobriety
First and foremost, Rhapsody is a place of refuge, a safe haven in the stormy sea we call life. Everything is taken care of so that you can focus entirely on the deep inner work you need to do. We have found through working with addicts and alcoholics that physical sobriety on its own is not enough. ĜUK same old ideas that failed in the past are miserably ineffective in dealing with life on life’s terms going forward. We revert very quickly to our reactive, fearful, and emotionally unbalanced selves, and our lives become unmanageable once again.
Yet if the 12 steps can work on something as destructive as dependency on alcohol or drugs, why then shouldn’t they work on our other crippling emotional dependencies? Depression, self-loathing, codependency, loneliness, rage, and despair have touched us all in one way or another and we see so much suffering seemingly without any hope of relief. Is it possible to be free?
At Rhapsody we try to provide a support system for those who are on this path towards wholeness, those who have the courage and willingness to do the work but nevertheless remain extremely vulnerable. We don’t have the power to fix anyone but we are a living example of what this power can do.
Here are the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as they relate to emotional sobriety –
STEP 1 – We admitted that we could not control our emotional nature, that we were prone to misery and depression – our lives had become unmanageable.
STEP 2 – Came to believe that our Higher Power could restore us to sanity.
STEP 3 – Made a decision to hand our emotional nature over to the care and management of our Higher Power.
STEP 4 – Made a fearless and thorough inventory of our emotional dependencies and their crippling consequences.
STEP 5 – Shared our emotional inventory with a trusted spiritual friend.
STEP 6 – Became entirely ready for our Higher Power to reconfigure our emotions and release us from our emotional bondage.
STEP 6 – Became entirely ready for our Higher Power to reconfigure our emotions and release us from our emotional bondage.
STEP 7 – Humbly ask our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings and restore us to sanity.
STEP 8 – Made a list of all those we had harmed, including ourselves.
STEP 9 – Made amends to all those we had harmed except when to do so would cause further harm.

STEP 10 – Continued to take emotional inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

STEP 11 – Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power praying only for knowledge of his will and the power to carry it.
STEP 12 – Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of working these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice emotional sobriety in all our affairs.
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