- Amidst we are powerless (our addiction) - that our lives have become unmanageable.
- Come to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
- Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the God as we understand Him.
- Make a searching and fearless moral inventory or ourselves.
- Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Become entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly ask Him to remove our short comings.
- Make a list of all persons we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
- Make direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong, admit it.
- Seeking through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him.
- Having a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, and trying to carry this message to others and practicing these principles in all our affairs.
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