“Replace Guilt With Gratitude”

The AA saying " replace guilt with gratitude" captures one of recovery's most transformative principles—the practice of shifting focus from regret and self-condemnation about the past to appreciation and thankfulness for present recovery opportunities and gifts. This principle recognizes that while guilt about addiction consequences may initially motivate recovery seeking, prolonged guilt becomes destructive and counterproductive to sustained recovery growth.

This self-assessment is designed to help you examine your relationship with guilt and gratitude in recovery. It explores whether you're trapped in destructive guilt patterns or have developed healthy gratitude practices, identifies areas where guilt might be undermining recovery progress, and helps you develop skills for transforming guilt into gratitude that supports rather than sabotages recovery growth.

The assessment examines not just your intellectual understanding of this principle but your emotional and practical integration of gratitude practices that replace guilt-based thinking with appreciation-based recovery motivation.