- We admit that we are powerless over our addictions, that our lives have become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could do what we could not, which is to restore our life to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our wellbeing and decisions over to the care of that Higher Power as we defined it.
- We made a fearless and thorough examination of ourselves, taking a moral inventory of our lives.
- Admitted to our Higher Power, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Became entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove all our defects of character.
- Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all the people we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when doing so would cause further harm to them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power, seeking only knowledge of our Higher Power's will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to those still suffering and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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