Step 5 – Confession? – Episode 23
The Recovery Show » Finding serenity through 12 step recovery in Al-Anon – a podcast
The Recovery Show
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2013
⏱️ 74 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Step 5 says that we “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs”. Why is this important? What were our fears and concerns? What was our experience? Join Spencer, Kelli and Swetha for a discussion of this step. A common reaction to approaching Step 5 for the...
The post Step 5 – Confession? – Episode 23 appeared first on The Recovery Show.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | And so I would like tell my sponsor one and then I'd like look up and see if she was freaking out and then she was okay. |
| 0:06.0 | So I'd be like okay, maybe I can go to this next one. It's not a little bit more uncomfortable. |
| 0:10.0 | She started with the easy stuff. Yeah, yeah, she was flipping out over the easy stuff. It was done. I was out |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome to the recovery show. We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and happiness. |
| 0:26.0 | We who live or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of addiction understand as perhaps few others can. |
| 0:32.0 | So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. |
| 0:37.0 | Today we're going to be talking about the fifth step which says we admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. |
| 0:45.2 | Are your past mistakes your deepest secrets? |
| 0:48.0 | Do you feel a lot of shame and fear around your part in old situations? |
| 0:51.3 | Are you having difficulty letting go go resentments? Maybe you just |
| 0:54.6 | finished your fourth step? Isn't it enough that we listed them in step four? How can we trust |
| 1:00.0 | someone enough to tell them? Do we have to admit everything? Let's talk about it. |
| 1:05.0 | And before we begin, we'd like to state that though we may be in a 12-step program, we represent |
| 1:10.2 | ourselves rather than the program. During this show, we will share our own experiences as they relate to the topic of step five. |
| 1:17.0 | The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. |
| 1:20.0 | Take what you like and leave the rest. |
| 1:22.0 | We hope that you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life. My name is Spencer and I will be your host today. Joining me is co-host Kelly. How you doing today Kelly? I'm excellent Spencer. How you doing? |
| 1:33.0 | Well, pretty good too. Next to Kelly is co-host Swaitha. How are you doing? |
| 1:36.0 | Great, thanks Spencer. |
| 1:37.0 | All right. The first segment of today's episode of the recovery show will be our discussion of the topic Step 5. Following a musical break |
| 1:44.5 | we will talk about our lives and recovery about what's happening in the meetings we |
| 1:48.0 | attend and in our lives. We will follow that with brief news about the podcast |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Recovery Show, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Recovery Show and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.