12 Steps
by kennethcharlesstilwell@ · 12 things on NewTwos
- Admit that you are powerless over your addiction and that your life has become unmanageable.
- Believe that a power greater than yourself can restore you to sanity.
- Make a decision to turn your will and your life over to the care of a higher power.
- Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of yourself.
- Admit to your higher power, to yourself, and to another human being the exact nature of your wrongs.
- Be entirely ready to have your higher power remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly ask your higher power to remove your shortcomings.
- Make a list of all persons you have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
- Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continue to take personal inventory and when you are wrong, promptly admit it.
- Seek through prayer and meditation to improve your conscious contact with your higher power, praying only for knowledge of their will for you and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, try to carry this message to other addicts and to practice these principles in all your affairs.