I just published the first video in the Boundaries mini-course! Check it out in the Classroom tab and let me know what you think below! Post your action homework here or you can create a new post to share your experiences and journaling prompts.

Borderline Personality Disorder Anonymous Hi Everyone! I'm excited to announce this free recovery group! It's similar to other 12-step programs. Join the movement of people with BPD supporting each other through a lifestyle of recovery and community. This group is focused on people who suffer from symptoms of BPD and their loved ones. We mirror the other 12 step fellowships, where we have no opinion on anything. There is no crosstalk and the 12 steps tailored to borderline personality disorder recovery are provided. Step 1 — Acknowledgment We acknowledged that our emotional responses and patterns had become bigger than our ability to manage alone, and that our relationships and inner world were suffering as a result. Step 2 — Openness We became open to the possibility that healing was available to us, whether through community, a higher power, science, or something greater than our current understanding. Step 3 — Surrender We made a decision to release our grip on controlling outcomes and trust the process of healing, leaning into support rather than isolation. Step 4 — Inventory We took an honest and compassionate inventory of our emotional patterns, triggers, resentments, relationships, and the ways our symptoms have shown up in our lives — without judgment. Step 5 — Disclosure We shared our inventory openly — with ourselves, with our community, and with a trusted person — acknowledging the impact of our patterns on ourselves and others. Step 6 — Willingness We became willing to examine and release the adaptive behaviors that once protected us but no longer serve our healing and growth. Step 7 — Asking We humbly sought support — from our community, our practice, and our higher understanding — to help us rewire the patterns keeping us stuck. Step 8 — Accountability We made an honest list of the ways our symptoms have caused harm — to ourselves first, and then to others — and became willing to take responsibility without self-destruction. Step 9 — Amends