Tag Archives: Making Amends

I Made Amends with My Friend. Why Won’t They Forgive Me?

I Made Amends with My Friend. Why Won’t They Forgive Me?

Now that you are working the 12-Steps, you recently gave an amends letter to one of your oldest and dearest friends to help resolve your past issues. Your intent is to let them know that you feel remorseful about your part of what went down and that you are amending, or changing, your behavior to […]

Ninth Month: Ninth Step

Ninth Month: Ninth Step

12-Step programs use the number of the 12-Step to correlate with the number of the month to pinpoint their capability. September promotes the ninth step in daily 12-Step literature devotions while providing relevance to how others have worked this step. “Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure […]