I just did my first amends. To my mom. I’m so humbled by this experience and can’t wait to finish the rest.
Please share your experience with step 9! I wanna hear stories. 
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That’s great making amends and getting rid of resentments are so helpful
Woah, I literally just got out of a 12 and 12 meeting where 40+ people shared their experience with step 9. Like, literally, I walked out 2 minutes ago. Wish you were there!
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Working step 9 and seeing the promises come true has been a truly humbling experience for me.
The thing that I learned later on was that working Step 9 was essential for me to forgive myself, maybe more so than the people/institutions on the Step 8 list. It’s also recommended to work 8 and 9 with a sponsor.
My experience with step 9 is that I’m never finished with step 9. Every amend I make seems to help me feel good. But in time, my memory serves me up another couple egregious offenses that get added to the list and so it goes. Time to call my sponsor and grab my pen and paper.