When I first came into recovery, I thought Step Four—“Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves”—was just about listing my wrongs, my character defects, and all the ways I had messed up my life.
I thought it was about shame, about confessing to how broken I was.
But what I didn’t realize then was that this step was not only about facing my past—it was about uncovering the parts of myself I had buried, the parts that were crying out for my attention.
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