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This document provides guidance for completing Step Five of a 12-step program, which involves admitting to God, oneself, and another person the exact nature of one's wrongs. It instructs the reader to search their past for specific acts that harmed others and the character defects that caused such reactions. One must illuminate each acquired character defect and wrong, no matter how painful. Completing this step writing involves using the provided worksheet to uncover wrongs in different areas of one's life, listing conflicts and memories, persons wronged, and the defects that caused problems. Sharing this writing with another person and God completes the process of clearing away the wreckage of the past.

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5th Step Guide-1

This document provides guidance for completing Step Five of a 12-step program, which involves admitting to God, oneself, and another person the exact nature of one's wrongs. It instructs the reader to search their past for specific acts that harmed others and the character defects that caused such reactions. One must illuminate each acquired character defect and wrong, no matter how painful. Completing this step writing involves using the provided worksheet to uncover wrongs in different areas of one's life, listing conflicts and memories, persons wronged, and the defects that caused problems. Sharing this writing with another person and God completes the process of clearing away the wreckage of the past.

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Fifth Step Worksheet

Area of Life
Family

Job

Organizations

Relationship with
People

Other Distressing
Facts

Person or Event

Bad Memory

Defect

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Fifth Step Guide


Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
In Step Four we made a searching and fearless and moral inventory of the acquired character defects. The
inventory from Step Four details the acquired character defects which are of the false self. These defects, when the
false self controls our lives, allow us to act and react in a manner that causes havoc not only to ourselves but also
toward other people, places and things. It is this inventory of the acquired character defects that forms the
foundation for doing Step Five.
Step Five involves the admission of the exact nature of our wrongs. Once again, the wrongs are from false self. In
order to admit these wrongs, we must search in our past. What wrongs are we looking for? We are searching for
the acts that we did when we caused harm toward other people. We include the problems and character defects
which caused or aggravated the reactions toward others. We are after the recognition of our deficiencies. Each
twist of character that has been acquired must be illuminated. Therefore, each wrong, no matter how painful, must
be brought up to the surface and honestly looked at. To the extent that we are searching and fearless in finding the
exact nature of our wrongs, the rest of the S.A. program will be built on this foundation.
The exact nature of our wrongs, when we have fearlessly exposed them, must then be expressed to God, ourselves
and another person. Although we have admitted the exact nature of our wrongs to ourselves and God, the process
of clearing away the wreckage of the past is not complete until we have shared these wrongs with another human
being. It is only when we include another person in the healing process that we are able to become aware of our
own self-delusion. The other person, if carefully chosen, will show us where we have not been totally honest in
our digging out of our wrongs. We must be candid, to the best of our ability, with this person and lay out all our
wrongs that we are aware of.
After completing Step Five, many benefits will be ready for us if we have done a thorough and honest job. Our
ability to remain sober will be increased. Step Five is a part of the footwork that allows the Grace of God to enter
us and expel the acquired destructive obsessions. No longer will we feel that terrible sense of isolation. The
willingness to forgive, not only ourselves but also other people, will be enhanced. This healing tranquility will be
greater awareness of the presence of God within our lives.
The Fifth Step should be written since most of us have many wrongs to uncover. The fact of putting the wrongs in
black and white shows us that they are not as big as we had blown them up to be. Also, we need a reference from
which to tell our story. The written inventory of the Fourth Step with the exact nature of our wrongs will helpus in
making a list of the people we have harmed.
Use the following list to help dig out the exact nature of your wrongs. Remember, you are after the destructive,
acquired character defects.

WRITING EXERCISE STEP FIVE


UNCOVERING THE EXACT NATURE OF OUR WRONGS
Use the following areas as a guide to help you job the memory in uncovering the exact nature of your wrongs. In
each area, list the conflicts, distressing, humiliating or embarrassing memories, and twists of character that you
have kept hidden. When possible, list the persons and your wrongs, and then identify the specific acquired
character defect that caused the problem.
1. Family parents, brothers and sisters, spouses and children, in-laws, etc.
2. Employment supervisors and co-workers
3. Organizations SA, hospitals, schools, churches.
4. Relationships with people men, women, and children.
5. Distressing and humiliating facts stealing, lying, physical harm, and sexual acting out.

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