Made a Searching & Fearless Moral Inventory (Of Someone Else)

Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery · May 12, 2026 · 27m · transcript

Thom’s Nutshell:

Step 16: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of someone else. I can’t say I wasn’t warned. They told me to stop at 12.

“Taking others’ inventory” gets to the heart of our functioning. Allen brings this back to Piaget’s studies of pre-operational stages of development. Our emotional development influences our consciousness, and the more immaturity we have, the more we look at the world as reflections of ourselves. Rather than trying to manipulate these people and situations, in emotional sobriety we can try to meet them with empathy to have the best experience we…