Step Five: Honesty
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Building on the foundation laid in Step Four, where we took a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, Step Five invites us to take an active leap toward healing. Step Five states that we "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs".
Read more about Step FiveReflections on Step Five
- May 1Beginning to Unburden
- May 2No More Martyrdom
- May 3The Humiliation of Needing Help
- May 4Acceptance Despite Wrongs
- May 5Stripping Away Excuses
- May 6Breaking Isolation
- May 7The Gift of Honesty
- May 8The Architecture of Trust
- May 9Lovingly Received
- May 10Faith in Necessity
- May 11The Verdict: You Are Seen
- May 12Defenses That No Longer Serve
- May 13Not the Worst
- May 14Closer to God and People
- May 15The Truth Sets Me Free
- May 16The Pattern Beneath the Pain
- May 17The Strength of a Phone Call
- May 18Never Alone Again
- May 19Healing the Hidden Self
- May 20Reasoning Together
- May 21Not All By Myself
- May 22Nothing Hidden From God
- May 23Cleaning the House
- May 24Feeling Free
- May 25Burden Lifted
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