Burning Step 4: Emotional Release

Burning Step 4: Emotional Release

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During the final minutes of telling my sponsor my Step 5, he told me that he recommended that I take my papers from Step 4, start a little fire in the back yard and watch it go up in smoke. All of those wrongs and secrets are released into the universe. This is done.

This was the little fire I made shortly after coming back home from my sponsor’s house. We completed Step 5 over the course of two long visits.

Step 4 was such a painful, but revealing process. I was able to see, with the help of a trusted sponsor, what my character defects are and how when I am backed into a corner, they come out flailing.