A.A.’s Step Five: Confession as the Antidote for Shame

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A.A.’s Step Five: Confession as the Antidote for Shame
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Telling the exact nature of your wrongs to a good listener begins healing shame.

The path of transparency then turns to admitting the exact nature of our wrongs to ourselves. By “exact nature,” step five pushes people beyond the general categories of character defects developed in the previous step and toward recalling specific events during which one’s flaws were most glaring.

Finally, step five calls on people to present a full accounting of their wrongs to another person. This level of transparency and vulnerability requires choosing someone who can be deeply trusted. Most A.A. members do the fifth step with their sponsor or aThe important point is to choose someone who understands the role of receiving someone’s fifth step, and this usually means someone who has already worked this step themselves.

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