Step 8: Seeking Forgiveness

Key Principle: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, share this message with others and practice these principles in all you do. Listen as members in recovery share a message of hope for all who are troubled

Key Principle: Seek through prayer and meditation to know the Lord's will and to have the power to carry it out. Listen as members relate how they overcame fear and depression with prayer and scripture study.

Key Principle: Continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong, promptly admit it. Members in recovery discuss how they prayerfully balance and evaluate each day. Step 10 is a commitment to take responsibility for daily mistakes

Key Principle: Wherever possible, make a direct restitution to all persons you have harmed. Making amends takes time and patience. Listen to members relate true experiences as they strive to make restitution and live in harmony with the commandments

Key Principle: Make a written list of all persons you have harmed and become willing to make restitution to them. Listen to true accounts of members as they seek to forgive themselves and make amends with others.

Key Principle: Humbly ask Heavenly Father to remove your shortcomings. Listen as members recount how they humbled themselves and learned to put their past in the past and trust Heavenly Father.

Key Principle: Become entirely ready to have God remove all your character weaknesses. Listen as members reflect upon their healing decision to abstain from past addictions through a deepening relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.

Listen as members begin to seek forgiveness by confessing of past sins and then finding the peace and joy that comes with the miracle of forgiveness.

Key Principle: Make a searching and fearless written moral inventory of yourself. Listen to members reflect upon their personal self-examination of the effects of their addictive behaviors.

Decide to turn your will and your life over to the care of God the Eternal Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. Listen to members share their personal decision to trust and obey God, change what they can change, and to accept what they cannot change.