1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, - that our lives
had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as
we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make
amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to
do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
promptly admitted 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 that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried
to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our
affairs.
lalarainbow said
Mar 12, 2005
John,
Newbie here. Can you please tell me if the 12 steps for AA and Al Anon are the same ones? or are there two different 12 steps for each?
~~Pam~~
jo4 said
Mar 12, 2005
they are the same..........except for the word alcohol substitute alcoholic.....
ie in step 12........ alanon...........tried to carry this message to others.
in AA...........tried to carry this message to alcoholics
John,
Newbie here. Can you please tell me if the 12 steps for AA and Al Anon are the same ones? or are there two different 12 steps for each?
~~Pam~~
they are the same..........except for the word alcohol substitute alcoholic.....
ie in step 12........ alanon...........tried to carry this message to others.
in AA...........tried to carry this message to alcoholics
every other word in the 12steps is identical.
jo
John, thanks for clearing that up for me... ~~Pam