The 12 Steps

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that 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 will and our lives over to the care of God as we                            understood Him.

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 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 wherever possible, except when to do so                        would injure them or others.

10. Continued 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 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 the result of these steps, we tried to carry                      this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our                                        affairs.

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