Why Stinking Thinking Leads to Drinking – Charlie P.
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Step 4: Inventory of Resentments - 1988
The business of staying sober is a fact-finding mission and Charlie P. treats the Fourth Step like a commercial inventory of a failing store. He warns against the 'life story' trap—where he once wrote 87 pages of useless history—and argues that the only stock in trade that matters is current thinking. By mapping resentments across a grid of self-esteem security and ambitions he strips away the 'resentment replay machine' that keeps alcoholics playing the victim. He doesn't just list wrongs he hunts for the 'damaged goods' in his own personality—the selfishness and dishonesty that set the ball rolling. The goal isn't to analyze the past for the sake of it but to clear the shelves so a Higher Power can move in. He concludes that while the world is full of sick people the only way to stop them from living rent-free in one's head is to pray for their prosperity until the bitterness evaporates.
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