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The 12 Steps Of Recovery

The 12 Steps of AA refers to the backbone of its program of recovery. It is a fellowship of both genders, men and women. Their platform shares their substantial experience and hope in a safe environment, which helps them recover from alcoholism and keep their drinking in remission. The desire to stop drinking is the only requirement for membership to it. Membership fees are not required. It has no other affiliations. The sole purpose is for its members to stay sober by helping other alcoholics achieve sobriety. Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, the founders, discovered by helping each other, they stayed sober.The twelve traditions apply to the life of the fellowship. They usually outline how it usually maintains its unity and relates to the world about it and how it lives and grows.

Participants typically follow the steps to achieve and abstain from alcohol. The goal is so that a person, who follows them, has a “spiritual awakening,” which transforms them into a different person.

The steps can be described as spiritual principles in nature and enable the sufferer to live a relatively happy and valuable life. Their program is a kind of treatment rehab program for those who are suffering from alcohol addiction. Most participants use a sponsor to help them through the process and help the sponsee stay sober.

The Steps

  1. We admitted we are powerless over alcohol and that their lives have become unmanageable.
  2. I came to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
  3. Make a decision to turn their will and lives over to the care of God
  4. Make a fearless and searching moral inventory.
  5. Admitted to ourselves, another human being, and their higher power the exact nature of their wrongs.
  6. Became entirely ready to have God, as we understood Him, remove all these defects of character.
  7. Humbly ask Him to remove all our shortcomings.
  8.  Made a list of all the people they have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to these people unless to do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when they were wrongly, promptly admit it.
  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 it out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening due to these steps, we try to message other alcoholics and practice these principles in all our affairs.