Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 2, Column 3
Fear is like a bondage created by self.
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Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 1, Columns 1 & 2
Fears include the things that make me anxious, the things I dread and those that I worry about…
Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 7, Column 5
Want help with the 4th Step? Baby steps are easy with this 5 column Not Scary Worksheet…
Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 6, Column 4
What are my reactions to drama and to pain? This work can tell you what to change…
Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 5, Column 3
Looking for the reason you have issues? This may be just what you’re looking for…
Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 4, Column 2
Looking for help with that Step 4 of recovery? Look no further! This is simple…
Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 3, Column 1 Continued
We bury our resentments.
Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 2, Column 1
Start by listing the people you have resentments against.
Baby Stepping Fourth: Day 1, Get Ready
Using this method, complete your 4th in just 7 days.
Step 4: Distinctions Between Selfish and Self-Seeking in AA
Looking for the difference between selfish and self-seeking? Read this…
Whad ya mean….Selfish?
Who knew? Not me, not before doing Step 4.
Baby Stepping Fourth: Sexual Harms Part 2
We asked God to mold our ideals and help us to live up to them.
Baby Stepping Fourth: Sexual Harms Part 1
Take a deep breath and let’s git’r done!
Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 4, Column 5
Fear feeds on dishonesty.
Baby Stepping Fourth: Fears Part 3, Column 4
Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it didn’t fully solve the fear problem, or any other.
Step 4: Fear Inventory
I never knew anyone who was so afraid of everything!”
Step 4: Part 8 Talkin’ Trash and Sex
I grew up in the 50s–a time when sex education had not yet been invented.
Step 4: Column 5 Peeling Back False Beliefs
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents absorbing survival skills: some good, some bad.
Step 4: Column 5 Character Defects and The Foul Four
Putting out of our minds the wrongs other had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes.
Step 4: Column 4 Ya But…
Ya but… (wheeze) the other guy is the problem! You’re just the victim, here.
Step 4: Column 4 Tattletale
So, what’s wrong with being a Tattletale?
Step 4: Column 3 Buddy Burner Gut Ignites
I’m a Fighter from a long line of Fighters. I don’t know what happens to you when you’re angry…
Step 4: Are You A Friend Among Friends?
I was not. I’m still learning. At one time I thought I had the perfect life but it was built upon the proverbial shifting sand of illusions about myself. The […]
Step 4: Column 2 The Cause Knot
Now that we have the first column naming people, institutions and principles we can move on to the second column.  (Refer to the Not Scary Resentments Worksheet of Step 4 in […]
Step 4: Why It Works Like a Sticky Trap For Rats of Resentment
Do you have an inexplicable feeling of pending doom? Do you feel deep down lonely…
Step 4: Column 1 Resentments, The Number One Offender
Take a good look at anything that riles you. What are your pet peeves?
Step 4: Dirty Urchins, Raggedy People and Drunks
Everything was dirty, broken, piled up and rusty. I kept gagging…
Step 4: As Long As You’re Green You’re Growing…
as soon as you’re ripe, you rot! There’s a lot of ripe ones out there…
Step 4: Fearless Moral Inventory Shortcut
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. That’s Step 4, perhaps the scariest few words Bill W strung together in this 12 Step program. It seems to me […]
After Stepping Fourth!
The truth will set you free, to the extent that you recognize it and cooperate with it.
Forgiveness and Murder
Mary Johnson befriended the man who murdered her only son and then invited him to come live next door
Prison Of Self
The above picture is from a recent trip to Scotland. The gate makes me think of how my old thinking has kept me imprisoned. I took this picture during a […]
Fudgesicles and Fear
So when AA suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride and his […]
Steps 4 and 5 Bonanza
What I wanted from the ranch was a secure environment where trouble, when it came, could be handled.
I Asked Him Why
Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. ~ AA p 59 Whenever I think about this step I flashback […]
Unhappiness: Part 2 Gerbil Wheel
I was focusing on the problem, not the solution.
Saying Good-bye to My Father Who Never Drank
My Dad is lying in a hospital bed in Brainerd, MN. Just that is enough to cause concern about his survival. Small towns and hospitals—need I say more! Mom left […]
Step 4: Fishing for Fears
We were both barefooted in a canoe and I could see that Pike had lots of teeth.
Step 8: Resentment Prayer
I wanted to find some wisdom shared with me by an old Hippie with long blond hair and beard who was from Dubuque, Iowa.
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