THE TWELVE STEPS
1. We admitted we were powerless over the
effects of alcoholism or other family
dysfunction, 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
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 God 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 God, praying only for knowledge of
God's will for us and the power to carry it
out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the
result of these steps, we tried to carry this
message to others who still suffer, and to
practice these principles in all our affairs.
(Suggested unified version by WSO at their in
person meeting, April, 1993.)
The Twelve Steps are reprinted and adapted with
permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World
Services, Inc.
