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12 Step Pickers Program - 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

Go back to your inventory list from Step 4 and made a list of the people who were inadvertently hurt by the path or actions you chose.

A friend who missed you at their party.

A boss who was disappointed in your services.

The person you rear ended in your car because you were looking at your face in the rear view mirror.

The boyfriend or girlfriend or husband or wife that felt rejection.

Think long and hard about this one. And don't forget THE most important person you have harmed along the way… YOU.

Make sure you list how you have hampered and harmed your life through your habitual obsessive picking. From the physical act that caused damage to your body through the emotional havoc it caused your soul. If you don't feel like crying after doing this, go back to step 4 and do some more inventory.

I am as sad for you as I was for myself. I feel your pain. I have shared your sorrow. I was in a state of disbelief and denial about how much I had hurt myself. I was definitely in total denial about the physical pain I suffered when I would squeeze and cut away at my skin, but that was nothing in comparison to the denial of the emotional pain that got me there in the first place. So please please please don't rush through this one. You have been beating yourself up for too long now. Stop it and give yourself a hug and know that I love you and eventually you will love you, too…. Once you can admit what you have done to the others in your life and yourself and come to terms with it. Only then can you start the forgiveness and healing process.

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