# Hold Back Nothing

**URL:** <https://forum04.loosid.cc/t/hold-back-nothing/144409>\
**Category:** Recovery\
**Created:** [May 6, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://forum04.loosid.cc/t/hold-back-nothing/144409 "2026-05-06T11:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![michael410470](https://forum04.loosid.cc/user_avatar/forum04.loosid.cc/michael410470/32/130769_2.png) [@michael410470](https://forum04.loosid.cc/u/michael410470)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://forum04.loosid.cc/t/hold-back-nothing/144409/1 "2026-05-06T11:53:49Z")

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The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first accurate self-survey. . . . Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are exposed. As the pain subsides, a healing tranquility takes its place.  
— TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 61-62

A tiny kernel of locked-in feelings began to unfold when I first attended A.A. meetings and self-knowledge then became a learning task for me. This new self-understanding brought about a change in my responses to life’s situations. I realized I had the right to make choices in my life, and the inner dictatorship of habits slowly lost its grip.  
I believe that if I seek God I can find a better way to live and I ask Him daily to assist me in living a sober life.