Alcoholics Anonymous, What Exactly Are The 12 Steps?
Alcoholics Anonymous Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Make no mistake about it, this is a very difficult step. There have been countless relapses as a result of preparing for or putting off step 5. But, I would say that they weren’t really ready to start the fifth step in the first place. This step is about humility. “All of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires… they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few steps are harder to take than Step 5. But scarcely any step is more necessary to longtime sobriety and peace of mind than this one”. (12 & 12, World Services, Inc.) In our workings of Step 4, we alcoholics tend to conveniently come down with amnesia as it pertains to the real instances in our past that cause us distress and great humiliation. We somehow “overlooked” the very instances that caused us the most pain and we swore would never speak of again. In our
