The 12 Steps

Step 1:  Admitted we were powerless over our addictions and that our lives were unmanageable.

Step 2:  Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step 3:  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.

Step 4:  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step 5:  Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 6:  Became entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Step 7:  Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.

Step 8:  Made a list of persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step 9:  Made direct amends to such people except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step 10:  Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Step 11:  Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God praying only for the knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry it out.