Drug Rehabilitation that works

The Fourth Step A Guide For Spiritual Advisors INTRODUCTION The Fourth Step is a written inventory which is designed to reveal those twists and perversions of the mind and spirit which are the result of overwhelming fear working on the naturalinstincts. It will also uncover the wrongdoing and faults of the addicted person and will identify thepeople he has hurt by his actions. Experience has shown that, in most cases, nothing but a writteninventory will suffice. The advisor needs to know that the addicted person cannot or will not fullyreveal himself until he is required to reduce his self-examination to writing. Denial is the hallmarkof all addictions and he has been hiding from the truth about himself for years. He has become anexpert dissembler, has well-established rationalizations for his behavior and in many cases hasbeen carefully indoctrinated with the excuses which allow him to refuse to take personalresponsibility for the desperate straits into which he has fallen. This Step will also begin theprocess of God-reliance without which the addicted person is helpless. While working the Fourth Step, the addicted person will take several “leaps of faith” whichwill demonstrate the power and trust-worthiness of God when He is called upon. When theaddicted person worked his Third Step, he made a decision to turn his life and will over to thepower of God, but this Step will have no permanent effect unless he immediately takes the actionnecessary to find and be rid of the …