12 Steps in 12 Days: A Look at Step 4 of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.)
General Service Conference approved literature lists Step 4 of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as follows:
“4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”
During step 4, we learn that there are four inventories we should be taking: Resentments, “Sex”, “Fears” and “Harms to others”. Step four is often regarded as a fact finding, and fact facing process. During this step, we want to uncover truths about ourselves and all the behaviors that cause us to fail.
