“Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” — Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) · Chapter 5 · How It Works
Step Four as printed in Chapter 5 — which then spends pages showing exactly how: resentments, fears, and harms, written down.
A business that never takes inventory goes broke without knowing why. “Searching and fearless” doesn’t mean brutal — half of a real inventory is assets, and skipping those is just fear wearing humility’s coat. The page can hold what your head can’t: written down, the monsters get exact sizes. Most turn out smaller than they sounded at 3 a.m.
Step 4