Sharing in 12 Step Meetings

We all bring secrets into recovery, but we can’t throw our garbage into the proverbial closet and leave it there indefinitely. After a while it starts to seep under the door and stink up the whole house. That’s why we have the 4th and 5th of our twelve steps:

Steps 4 and 5 of the twelve steps of Alcoholic Anonymous.

Those steps, shared with a sponsor or other trusted person, help us come to terms with our past. Getting our secrets out in the open gives us the willingness and ability to move beyond that part of our lives.  MORE…

1 thought on “Sharing in 12 Step Meetings

  1. greg w

    Most excellent, Bill. Very graciously spoken and quite appropriate in my own recovery. Re-posted it from Sunrise Detox.

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