Step Four

I have reached step four in my recovery process: (Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves) and my therapist advised me to skip it. Actually what he did was lean way back in his chair and say something like “oooooh boy, let’s hold off on that one for a while,” then, later in the session, he explained that some people are just exceptional people and can skip steps altogether and still have valid recovery. So if anyone is ready for step four I’ve got one, totally unused. I haven’t touched it, although I was getting pretty geared up to take it on (I have done some really nasty shit), I ended up just jumping on to step five (admit to God, ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs) because I have been given a pass on step four. Of course, without step four, I don’t have a whole lot of work to do here with step five, but Mister Therapist says, don’t worry, there’s plenty just in the air around me. Therapist has indicated also that when it comes to the whole can of worms known as steps eight and nine (make a list of all the people we have harmed then make direct amends to such people, except when to do so would injure them or others) that we will in all likelihood just blow through them as well, and so I will soon be offering them too.