When Relief Isn’t Peace: Using Step 7 To Choose Spiritual Principles Over Impulse

When Relief Isn’t Peace: Using Step 7 To Choose Spiritual Principles Over Impulse

November 23, 2025 · 38 min

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The episode discusses the importance of Step Seven in personal growth, emphasizing the difference between relief and peace and the need for consistent practice of spiritual principles.

Growth doesn’t happen in the fantasy of “tomorrow.” It happens in the ugly, honest moments when we admit that two days off from discipline can snowball into chaos, and that relief is not the same thing as peace. We go straight at Step Seven—humbly asking a higher power to remove our shortcomings—and unpack why it demands more than a quick prayer. It asks for practice, for principles, and for a right-sized sense of self that makes change possible. We trace the thread from Step Six to Step Sev...

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