“Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life” James 1:12 (The Message)

Step 1 part 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable

Step 1 part 2: We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable

Step 2: We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity

Step 3: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God

Step 4 part 1: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves

Step 4 part 2: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves!

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

Step 6: We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character

Step 7: We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings

Step 8: We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all

Step 9: We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others

Step 10: We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it

Step 11: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry it out

Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to those still in active addiction, and to practice these principles in all our affairs