In that moment I remember thinking to myself:
 “There is no way that if any of these people really knew me that they would love me”

Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.

We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and power to carry that out.

We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.