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REMORSE
"the eighth step offers a big chance from a life dominated by guilt and remorse"

Remorse was one of the feelings that kept us using.We had stumbled our way to active addiction,leaving a trail of heartbreak and devastation too painful to consider.We feel we can go ahead and repair the damage we had caused,there was no way to make it right.
We begin the eighth step by actually making a list of all persons we had harmed.We own our part in our painful past.
But the eight step does not ask us to make right all of our mistakes,merely to become willing to make amends to all those people.
Remorse is no longer an instrument we use to torture ourselves . Remorse has become a tool we can use to achieve self-forgiveness.