The 12 Steps
1
Admitted we were powerless over our addictive behaviors and our lives had become unmanageable.
2
Came to believe that
a power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
3
Made a decision
to turn our lives and our wills
over to the care of God.
4
Made a searching
and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
5
Admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
6
Were entirely ready
to have God remove
all these defects of character.
7
Humbly asked Him
to remove
all our shortcomings.
8
Made a list of all persons we had
harmed and became willing
to make amends to them all.
9
Made direct amends to such people
whenever possible, except when
to do so would injure them or others.
10
Continue to take
personal inventory
and when we were wrong,
promptly admitted it.
11
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.
12
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.