Dec 12 2008
DETAILED 4th STEP (pt5)(Fears)
I hope you are keeping up with these. This is our road to recovery and the more detailed we can be on this 4th Step the better we will do at relapse prevention. In order to stay clean and sober we must know how we got into this mess. that requires a detailed look at our selves. While this is not a comfortable step it is a necessary one.
Today we will begin to check into our fears. Start by printing the list below. after you have printed it you will need to mark each one that applies to you in any way. You may add any that I have accidentally left out. Remember to be thorough.
FEAR
- Abandonment
- Aging
- Anger
- Authority figures
- Being alone
- Being deceived
- Being found out being myself
- Change
- Compliments
- Confrontation
- Creditors
- Death
- Denial, my
- Disapproval
- Disease
- Divorce
- Embarrassment
- Employment
- Facing myself
- Failure
- Fear
- Feelings
- Financial insecurity
- Flying
- Fourth and fifth steps
- Future, the
- Getting fat of thin
- God
- Going home
- Going out on a “whim”
- Having children
- Homelessness
- Homosexuality
- Honesty
- Humiliation
- Hurting others
- I’m a fraud and others will find out
- Incarceration
- Intimacy
- IRS, the
- Letting go
- Living
- Loneliness
- Losing hope
- Love
- Mediocrity
- Money
- Needing anyone
- Not being good enough
- Not being happy
- Not being liked
- Not being perfect
- People (specify who)
- Police, the
- Poverty
- Procrastination
- Rape
- Rejection
- Relationships
- Resentments, my
- Responsibility
- Risks
- Saying that I can’t do something
- Sex
- Sponsor, my
- Success
- Unemployment
- Unknown, the
- Violence
- Work
