Step Eight of the AA program of recovery is...
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Going back to our fourth step inventory we should have listed the names of those we resented, feared and hurt in some way. In the eighth step we look back through this list and pull out these names, adding more if necessary, and we must become willing to make amends to these people. If we are not willing, then we need to pray for the willingness.
It's a very simple step - just making a list, and becoming willing to make amends. Simple, but not necessarily easy. Easy is listening to your disease tell you this is not important. Easy is falling back into the self-destructive way of life that is alcoholism. Easy isn't recovery. The Big Book says we trudge the road to happy destiny. Just in case you don't know, trudge implies work. We walk this path of recovery one step at a time. We trudge, we grow, we live and we learn, and in the meantime, as a byproduct of living right, we stay sober. Amazing how that works!
