#TAKE PERSONAL INVENTORY HOW TO#
#TAKE PERSONAL INVENTORY FREE#

What have you experienced that you believe relates to this step? Please share what you’ve learned about continuing to take personal inventory and promptly admitting wrongs.Ĭopyright 2010 Beth Livingston. We admit we have a problem (Step 1), ask God to help us get rid it (Steps 2 & 3), face uncomfortable truths and tackle difficulties along the way to getting rid of it (Steps 4 - 7), apologize to people we’ve hurt (Steps 8 & 9), and continue to repeat this cycle as life goes on (Step 10). We look deeper with God's help. Step 10 encourages us to continue in the process. We will be at different stages with changing mindsets and behaviors, all headed toward the goal of living a healthy life in close relationship with our Creator. The reason I bring that up is to demonstrate that recovery is a process. We admit we have a problem (Step 1), ask God to help us get rid it (Steps 2 & 3), face uncomfortable truths and tackle difficulties along the way. He will help me find ways to be comfortable with conflict and not dodge it anymore. Step 10 encourages us to continue in the process. I don't have to know HOW God will do it, I just need to trust that He WILL do it. He takes the willing soul and performs miracles.

#TAKE PERSONAL INVENTORY HOW TO#

I don't know how God will help me become the person who stays put and deals with negative things, but this one thing I know: I didn't know how to do life without drinking and He sure taught me how to do that.

I don't want to stay this way because God's shown me that it's not the healthy way to handle conflict or sorrow. Evidently, I’m addicted to having peace at all costs - even if it means living in denial or running away to avoid dealing with stress. In fact, now that all those things are gone from my life, God is now teaching me about another destructive pattern. Had I not continued to seek what God wanted to change in my life, I might still be smoking. In my life, God cleansed me of alcohol first, then cigarettes, and then pot.

Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. The goal is total healing-in this case, to the very center of the onion. Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. When the first layer is removed, the next layer awaits. Many of us may even stumble back into a destructive behavior and this continual personal inventory becomes the catalyst for admitting we’ve slipped up and need to get back on track.

#TAKE PERSONAL INVENTORY FREE#

It’s rare to be free from all hurtful behaviors and thinking patterns just because we’ve gotten free from one area of addiction. Have you been sober for a while now or experienced victory over an eating disorder or some other self-destructive behavior? When we’ve been free over one area of difficulty, we need to continue to take personal inventory because God will reveal another area of our lives He will help us with. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

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