Twelve Steps

  1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives
    have become unmanageable.
  2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore
    us to sanity.
  3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of
    God as we understood Him.
  4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the
    exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
    character.
  7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
  8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to
    make amends to them all.
  9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except
    when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
    promptly admitted it.
  11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
    contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge
    of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried
    to carry this message to addicts and to practice these principles in all
    our affairs.