Responsibility vs Accountability

One of the ‘fears’ I most often see left out of Steps 4 & 5?  The ‘fear of taking responsibility’.  The hinge of Step 1, is taking responsibility and accountability that ‘we did this to ourselves’ — ‘it’s our own self-imposed crisis’ — and it’s our responsibility, with God’s help, to admit, acknowledge, and become accountable ourselves — to use the tools that God has provided to us, and to take any and all necessary actions that only we can take — to recover. That’s the starting point of getting better.  😉