Addiction and Recovery Final

Step 1

We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become 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 inventory of ourselves

Step 5

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs

Step 6

Were 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 all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all

Step 9

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, 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 as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out

Step 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

Patrick Carnes

Out of the Shadows

Margaret Bullitt-Jonas

Holy Hunger: A Memoir of Desire

Linda Chamberlain

Understanding and Diagnosing Compulsive Gambling

Alcoholics Anonymous

The Twelve Steps of AA

Alcoholics Anonymous

Bill’s Story

Alcoholics Anonymous

The Doctor’s Opinion

Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit

Marie Howe

Recovery

Marie Howe

The Affliction

Franz Wright

One Heart