“Once we have taken this step, withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us. We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator.” (Chapter Six, Big Book)
“The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are exposed.” (Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
In Spirited Away, the apparent Stink Spirit seems like a disgusting monster until what seems like a small thorn is pulled out of his side, and, as it is pulled out, a mountain of tangled garbage way bigger than him is extracted, he is instantly transformed, and it is revealed he is a river spirit. Thus: us and Step Five.