Those negative feelings can be useful if they get you busy on step work. Once I started doing the steps with hope and expectation that the work would make it easier for me to get along in the world, I started to live easier (I'm doing it now and it's working). Sure, I still have problems but I don't have to be a slave to them.
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Anxiety and fear over the unknown. I need a job, and to fix my car.
Anger at myself for getting myself into this mess.
Remorse/Guilt for all the lives I've messed up while using. Wife, Children, Friends, Co-Workers and Bosses.....
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The idea for those is to turn it over to your higher power. THat does NOT mean sitting in front of an empty plate praying "God please fill this thing up with food". Do what you can today about the car and the job, pray and then let go of it. If you're like me the traditional plan of action is to obsess about these things continuously, trying to guilt myself into positive action, but not actually DO anything about them, then feel awful, coincidentally making it easier to justify taking a drink. Or make a long run on sentence! Or both.
The steps contain a positive plan of action for dealing with people we've harmed, but there's no magic button to fix it now. Steady step work will help with these. It works for me and many others.