Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
Description
Step 9 of the Nar-Anon Program. In this episode, these 19 questions are discussed:
1. List ways making amends can help me let go of guilt or blame to aid my recovery.
2. What resentments and grudges still interfere with my willingness to make amends?
3. What is the difference between apologizing and making amends?
4. To which people on my list do I need to make direct amends?
5. How can I plan what I am going to say in order to be concise and avoid blame?
6. Have I considered practicing or role playing a direct amends scenario with my sponsor or another trusted Nar-Anon member?
7. What does it mean "to be carrying baggage"? How might this concept relate to making amends?
8. If my amends are rejected, am I willing to accept the result?
9. Am I concerned about how I will be treated when I make amends?
10. Are there people on my list to whom I need to make indirect amends? If so, who?
11. What can I do to offer a kindness to another that would fill the needs of my indirect amends?
12. How can writing my indirect amends help me to heal?
13. What behaviors have I changed by making amends to myself?
14. How have I harmed myself by holding onto resentments?
15. What financial goal can I set and what is my plan to achieve that goal?
16. What is my favorite way to treat myself?
17. How has making time for spirituality enhanced my recovery?
18. What situations may require I wait for a better time?
19. Sometimes partial restitution is all that is needed. Is there a way I can make a partial amends?




