Tag Archives: Step 7

  • Working Step Seven
    Thursday, July 25th, 2019

    Working Step Seven

    You can’t change what you refuse to confront. In Step 6, you identified your character defects and became willing to live without them. Step 7 is the logical continuation...
  • Step Seven and Humility
    Thursday, July 18th, 2019

    Step Seven and Humility

    Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. Humility is often conflated with humiliation, but they are not the same. Humiliation does...
  • Step Seven: Progress Not Perfection
    Thursday, July 11th, 2019

    Step Seven: Progress Not Perfection

    Perfection has one grave defect; it is apt to be dull. Many long-recovering addicts say their Higher Power can and does remove their character defects when asked. The problem...
  • Step Seven as a Mantra
    Thursday, July 4th, 2019

    Step Seven as a Mantra

    The most necessary element of change is awareness of the need for change. Step 7 reads: “Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.” Usually this is done as part...