Admitted we were powerless over our addictive behaviors and our lives had become unmanageable.
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Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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Made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.
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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
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Humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
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Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
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Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
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Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
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Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
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Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.