Self Tests

Worksheet to help you identify and overcome subtle sins in your life.

Signs of needing Recovery

• Behavior that sabotages successful management of our lives
• Feeling the necessity to shut down feelings and to keep everything inside. (As children we learned that expressing our own wants
  and needs resulted in rejection. This in turn fueled intense feelings of inadequacy. No matter how hard we tried things
  only got worse). When we express our needs we risk being rejected.
• low self esteem
• insecurity, anxiety
• Trying to save face rather than to acknowledge reality and accept the consequences of our actions. Hiding from our true feelings by staying "busy." By staying busy we allow ourselves to ignore our true feelings and thus deny them.
• Tendency to isolate

Read the following lists of relapse warning signs. Place a check mark next to any that have happened to you. Place a question mark next to any that you do not understand. Underline any words that cause you to have strong thoughts or feelings, make you want to do something.

Phase I: Internal Warning Signs

• ___ Trouble thinking clearly: Sometimes I cannot understand what is going on. At times, it is hard to think, or I can only think about the same thing over and over. At times I cannot think at all, or when I do, I make mistakes that I usually would not make.

Worksheet to help you with understanding Step One.

Worksheet for Step 4 regarding Same Sex Attraction.

Questions dealing with same sex attraction and adulthood to help with Step 4.

Worksheet to help with same sex attraction. These questions deal mostly about the adolescent period of life.

If you use Excel, you will find this Spreadsheet for Step 4 to be of value when working the step.

You will find this worksheet very helpful for taking your Step Four Inventory.

This checklist is very helpful for working Step 10.