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When I joined AA and began working the program, I discovered I needed to change more than just my drinking. Some parts of the program were easy and I was actually glad to give up some of my character defects. But other things were not so easy, and one very hard thing for me to do was to open up about myself to other people--to be rigorously honest as we are told we must be. Some of the things I had to look at honestly concerned members of my family, and while they were not necessarily things it would have been appropriate to share at an open meeting, they were things I had to tell my sponsor. One night I shared quite a few painful memories with my sponsor, and it was a relief to get it out in the open. But the next morning the old critical inner voice was back giving me a hard time. So I sat down at the computer and began to answer the nagging voice as the thoughts came to mind.