Step 8

Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all
 

C2C page 263  An 8 TH   step list tells me to let go of guilt and regret that I I may be carrying from the past. I will approach this step with love and gentleness because I take it for my own freedom.

My Share

I continue to love the simplicity and gentleness of this program. This step simply asks that I make a list of people that I have harmed, And after do that,. I become willing to consider making amends to them. Once I had honestly worked a fourth and fifth step, I had no problem identifying the people that I had harmed. I first need to identify the harm that I  had done which at times was not easy. I believed I was helping , when I interfered to give advice, or did for people what they could've done for themselves, In reality, I was hurting them unintentionally. I also hurt myself greatly by making my needs on important and myself invisible. I was never honest with others because I thought they should be able to read my mind as I read there's.Another onjury to myself and others . Attending meetings , reviewing  my list daily ,praying for thew llingness, brought me to the point that I had made amends to myself first by so doing and was then ready to make amends to others .

Activities

1.  Have you started your list yet? 

Have you made a mental list of the people you believe you have harmed?

2.  Would you like peace and healing in your relationship, even in those you don't wish to maintain? 

What are the barriers to healing that are still within you?
3.  What are the relationships, past or present, that bother you the most?