The 12 Steps of Recovery
A path to recovery based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Honesty
We admitted we were powerless over our affliction—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Hope
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Faith
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Courage
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Integrity
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Willingness
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humility
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Brotherly Love
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Justice
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Perseverance
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Spiritual Awareness
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.
Service
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others with afflictions, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.