Step 4

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

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  1. Blog post # 4000: Page 6716 July 2026
  2. Paper13 April 2026
  3. Step Ten for sticky situations21 February 2026
  4. Step Four (again)27 January 2026
  5. Roach3 December 2025
  6. Observer and observed24 August 2025
  7. Good inventory UPDATED30 June 2025
  8. Keep it simple28 January 2025
  9. Negative thoughts29 December 2024
  10. Grosser handicaps29 December 2024
  11. Causes and conditions6 December 2024
  12. InstaFour26 October 2024
  13. Cracking on12 October 2024
  14. Stuck on the first column10 October 2024
  15. Trouble with column 1?30 September 2024
  16. Morality and forgiveness24 September 2024
  17. Laxatives vs endoscopy5 September 2024
  18. Step Four: adjustment to the method29 February 2024
  19. Is there a workbook for the Al-Anon steps?20 December 2023
  20. Steps Four etc. and assets28 November 2023
  21. Step Four, Column Two: Tips21 October 2023
  22. Fearless and THOROUGH ... ALL persons we had harmed ...6 June 2023
  23. Page 67 questions26 April 2023
  24. Disagreeable18 February 2023
  25. Disappointment23 December 2022
  26. Moral inventory10 December 2022
  27. Page 67 questions: Internal or external?22 September 2022
  28. Step Four: Resentment Inventory: Second column3 July 2022
  29. Sloppy language and inventory30 June 2022
  30. Step Four: twenty-one questions22 May 2022
  31. Writing good inventory2 May 2022
  32. Inventory and language20 April 2022
  33. Good inventory14 April 2022
  34. Ambitions, security, and pocketbooks29 March 2022
  35. 'Keeping inventory current'24 March 2022
  36. Upset: A worked example with reference to The Archers (spoiler if you're not up to date)23 March 2022
  37. Resentment against oneself9 December 2021
  38. Step Four: Into the woods15 November 2021
  39. The role of the resentment inventory28 October 2021
  40. Why resentment first?20 October 2021
  41. Step Four: Resentments: Second Column: Ground Control to Major Tom30 September 2021
  42. Undermining the story11 June 2021
  43. Step Four: where does the inventory actually start?21 February 2021
  44. 'In response to a stimulus, with intensive force'9 September 2020
  45. Step 04: Resentment: Column 3: The ego's demands vs God's blueprints28 August 2020
  46. Demands and preferences27 July 2020
  47. Getting rid of resentment: what are the motivations?29 June 2020
  48. Error vs sin20 April 2020
  49. Step Four: Third Column26 January 2020
  50. How I use the page 67 questions23 December 2019
  51. ’Affects my’—simple version13 June 2019
  52. Step Four: speed17 November 2018
  53. Step Four, resentment inventory, second column, tips29 October 2018
  54. Broken thinking15 September 2018
  55. What shape is my ego?8 August 2017
  56. The gap in Step Four7 July 2017
  57. Now23 March 2017
  58. The bridge passage21 December 2016
  59. Two types of resentment17 September 2016
  60. Step Four resentment inventory: how much do I write?17 August 2016
  61. The three stages to getting over resentment5 July 2016
  62. Third column. So what?22 February 2015
  63. Al-Anon: Paths to Recovery: the Step Four virtues and flaws10 January 2015
  64. Getting rid of resentment3 June 2014
  65. Step four, resentments, third column: so what?3 June 2014
  66. One Step Four or many?27 May 2014
  67. What am I doing? Step Four, Ten, or Eleven?1 December 2012
  68. Step Four instructions (complete)11 November 2012
  69. STEP 04 An exercise on completion of the third column of the resentment inventory3 July 2012
  70. True ambition29 December 2011
  71. STEP 2 PROPOSITION EXERCISE19 May 2011
  72. Step off the ghost train18 January 2011
  73. Step Four . . . once? More often? Regularly?10 January 2011
  74. The foolishness of values14 December 2010
  75. Do resentments against myself go on my Step Four?4 December 2010
  76. St Augustine's Prayer Book 'transgressions'7 May 2010
  77. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: the victim and her trusty companions27 April 2010
  78. Step 4: the Case of the Mistaken Identity25 March 2010
  79. What to do when the heebie-jeebies strike14 January 2010