Step 8

DDA Members Share their Experience on Step 8:

“In my experience, we can get a lot of the people who will feature in our amends list from our Steps Four & Five.

But this Step gives us the opportunity to add anyone else who we think we have wronged to a list of relationships and mistakes that we want to put right.

This Step is all about becoming willing. I split my list into three or four groups: 

  1. Those I’m willing to make amends to now.
  2. Those who I might be willing to make amends to at a later date.
  3. Those who I don’t want to make amends to.
  4. And finally, those who I own an amends to, but that it would cause more harm if I did.

I went through this list with my sponsor, and he helped me to work out who I should, could, and shouldn’t make direct amends to.”

The 12 Steps:

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DDA's Additional 5 Steps for Dual Diagnosis:

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The 12 Just for Today Stanzas:

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Submit Your Experience on the Step of Your Choice:

Please use the form below to submit your experience on the DDA Step of your choice and help other newer members to learn more about the different ways people have worked the DDA recovery programme.

If you need a reminder of the wording for each of the Steps or the Just for Today Stanzas, then you can view them by clicking on the button to the Meeting Readings that has all of the Steps and the Just for Today reading to be able to see each of the 12 Stanzas:

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