Step 2: Acknowledgement of the Wrong — The Hardest Easy Step

Nov 11, 2025 | Step 2

Step Two: Acknowledgement of the Wrong — The Hardest Easy Step Let’s be honest — “acknowledging the wrong” sounds simple. Two words. Easy enough to say, right? Yet somehow, it feels like trying to swallow a cactus made of truth and accountability. So What Does...

Why We Delay Atonement: Five Hidden Blocks

Nov 6, 2025 | 8 Steps, Step 1

Why We Delay Atonement: Five Hidden Blocks In the journey toward true atonement, many of us stall. We procrastinate, sidestep, or delay when what we really need is to lean in. My discussion with our Product Policy Manager surfaced five key sentiments that often...

Step 1: Point Out the Wrong

Oct 22, 2025 | Step 1

Step One: Point Out the Wrong (Without Pointing Fingers Too Hard)   Ah, Step One — Point Out the Wrong. Sounds simple enough, right? Until you realize… there are two people in this step: the pointer and the pointed. And both have jobs that are not for the...

Consider the Humble Ant

Oct 22, 2025 | 8 Steps

Atonement Is Not for the Faint of Heart In an age when therapy, counseling, and self-help dominate the conversation about healing, it’s easy to mistake talking about our pain for transforming it. Too often, therapy becomes a place where we unload our regrets and...

Is Sorry Enough or 8 Steps?

Oct 22, 2025 | 8 Steps

When “Sorry” Is Enough — and When You Need to Walk the Eight Steps Sometimes you bump past someone in a hallway and say “pardon me” and life moves on. Other times the offense is deeper, the damage more subtle but real, and the process demands more than a quick...

The Spirit of the Journey

Oct 18, 2025 | 8 Steps

The Spirit of the Journey Embracing the Heart Behind the Eight Steps of Reconciliation Every meaningful journey begins within. Before two people can reconcile with one another, they must each first reconcile with truth — the truth about themselves, their intentions,...