12
Steps |
12
Principles |
1. We admitted we
were powerless over the effects of
addiction — that our lives had
become unmanageable. |
1. Honesty,
acceptance and surrender. |
2. Came to believe
that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity. |
2. Hope. |
3. Made a decision
to turn our will and our lives over
to the care of God
as we
understood Him. |
3. Faith. |
4. Made a searching
and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves. |
4. Courage. |
5. Admitted to God,
to ourselves, and to another human
being, the exact nature of our
wrongs. |
5. Integrity. |
6. Were entirely
ready to have God remove all these
defects of character. |
6. Willingness. |
7. Humbly asked Him
to remove our shortcomings. |
7. Humility. |
8. Made a list of
all persons we had harmed, and
became willing to make amends to
them all. |
8. Justice and
brotherly love. |
9. Made direct
amends to such people, wherever
possible, except when to do so would
injure them or others. |
9. Self-discipline
and good judgment. |
10. Continued to
take personal inventory and when we
were wrong promptly admitted it. |
10. Perseverance
and open mindedness. |
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. |
11. Awareness. |
12. Having had a
spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this
message to other codependents, and
to practice these principles in all
our affairs. |
12. Love and
service. |