Step 8, Step eight,
For AA NA, Al Anon 12 step programs
We made a list...
Step 8 we made a list, AA NA 8th Step
Artist Jennifer Scott depicts making a list, in a self-portrait !
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.
To a degree, he has already done this when taking a 4th step moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways. This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery. But if a willing start is made, then the great advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 77-78
To a degree, he has already done this when taking a 4th step moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways. This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery. But if a willing start is made, then the great advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 77-78
 12 n 12 AA Step 8 |  NA Basic Text |
And a smart warning or encouragement from the NA Literature:
We do this step as if there were no Ninth Step. We do not even think about making the amends but just concentrate on exactly what the Eighth Step says which is to make a list and to become willing. The main thing this step does for us is to help build an awareness that, little by little, we are gaining new attitudes about ourselves and how we deal with other people.
www.na.org Basic Text Ch. 4, Step 8
We do this step as if there were no Ninth Step. We do not even think about making the amends but just concentrate on exactly what the Eighth Step says which is to make a list and to become willing. The main thing this step does for us is to help build an awareness that, little by little, we are gaining new attitudes about ourselves and how we deal with other people.
www.na.org Basic Text Ch. 4, Step 8
Just start writing...anywhere! Or use one of our blank journals!
Stetson Stockard Texas, the 8th step made a list, Step 8
Step 8, we made a list of those wronged...
Here Texan high school student cartoonist Stetson Stockard depicted step eight as being a tag artist doing his inventory on a wall for all to see!
Here Texan high school student cartoonist Stetson Stockard depicted step eight as being a tag artist doing his inventory on a wall for all to see!
Step 8 in Al Anon literature,
one excerpt that all can relate to!
When I came to Al-Anon (or any program!) I saw myself as a victim. I had been harmed. I wanted justice, and justice meant that those who harmed me should be punished. That was my perception.
Others did not always see things as I saw them. In my alcoholic home I was seen as the problem rather than the one who was victimized. Others wanted justice. To them, justice meant I should be punished. I felt confused when others did not see things as I saw them.
Al-Anon’s Eighth Step taught me to make a list of all those I had harmed and become willing to make amends to them all. Fortunately I had worked the previous steps. By then I realized growing up in an alcoholic home distorted my perceptions. I realized my marriage relationship had been impacted by my past experiences growing up in alcoholism. I learned feelings were not right or wrong, good or bad. They just are. What made them right or wrong was how I responded to them.
What were my thoughts and beliefs about my feelings? My thoughts and beliefs were distorted. I learned that what I believed was not always true.
Who should go on my list? Who had I actually harmed? http://al-anonfamilygroups.org
a wonderful blog post by Chris R.
Note: The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage, an Al‑Anon sanctioned book can help with the unique problems of applying the Twelve Steps to their relationships.See our Al Anon page
Others did not always see things as I saw them. In my alcoholic home I was seen as the problem rather than the one who was victimized. Others wanted justice. To them, justice meant I should be punished. I felt confused when others did not see things as I saw them.
Al-Anon’s Eighth Step taught me to make a list of all those I had harmed and become willing to make amends to them all. Fortunately I had worked the previous steps. By then I realized growing up in an alcoholic home distorted my perceptions. I realized my marriage relationship had been impacted by my past experiences growing up in alcoholism. I learned feelings were not right or wrong, good or bad. They just are. What made them right or wrong was how I responded to them.
What were my thoughts and beliefs about my feelings? My thoughts and beliefs were distorted. I learned that what I believed was not always true.
Who should go on my list? Who had I actually harmed? http://al-anonfamilygroups.org
a wonderful blog post by Chris R.
Note: The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage, an Al‑Anon sanctioned book can help with the unique problems of applying the Twelve Steps to their relationships.See our Al Anon page
Step 8 as the little angles that we were (?), we probably wronged a person or three...
Step 8 of the 12 steps: of all those we had wronged
...of all those we had wronged
We made a list of all those we had wronged...
Step 8, or the twelve steps
and we made note to include God and ourselves in that list!
Art: Moore College of Art and Design, Jr. Class project - illustrating the 12 steps. For The Twelve Steps c
Art: Moore College of Art and Design, Jr. Class project - illustrating the 12 steps. For The Twelve Steps c
8, you can relate. Gossip is wronging another.
Gossip Kills! People are hurt and stop
"coming back" relapse and die!
Gossip Kills! People are hurt and stop
"coming back" relapse and die!
 WaS i talking out of the side of MY NECK....step 8 |  Gossip is an inventory all it's own |
You Yu, China, for our book series, recovery art
Our memories last a lifetime. Here we have a chance to resolve guilt from past wrongs and change ...and possibly make old offenses the grounds for all new understanding!
Dail's famous painting with a funny twist!
"THE PERSISTANCE OF MEMORY"
"La persistencia de la memoria" 1931
The twelve steps, step 8
on to step 9, click below "steplady"!
Stepgirl, movin on to step 9, AA NA Twelve Steps
Art: Jennifer Scott for Step 8, made a list.
Our journals, large step 8 section of pages for "making a list"!
 Men's 12 step guide, lined pages with art |  12 step worksheets, Step 8 |