In working the first three steps of the 12-Step Program, you’ve likely started to see yourself and the world in a new light. The fourth step of the 12-Step Program is designed to help you take a courageous and honest look at your life and identify negative thoughts, actions, and emotions that have led to or contributed to your addiction. Step 4 of the 12-Step Program is: “ Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” What Is the Purpose of the Fourth Step in the 12-Step Program? Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. Step Four of the 12-Step Program is notoriously challenging, so how do you approach it? What things can you do daily to earnestly work the fourth step? We’ll provide some additional context and tips to help you get started. To do this, you must also be willing to accept what you discover and clean up your life to make space for a new way of living. After you decide to put your life into the hands of your Higher Power, the next step (Step 4 of the 12-Step Program) is to make a moral inventory of yourself and your life.
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