12 Step Recovery? What are the 12 steps exactly?

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Always hear the 12 step program. What are extactly the 12 steps. Please spell out. thanks.

Answers:
The first poster listed the twelve steps. The link I am posting is to the AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) Bible which is known as the Big Book. It will explain these steps in more detail.
http://www.recovery.org/aa/bigbook/ww/
AA Big Book

You can also call an AA integroup in your community or find a meeting on line. This way you can hear people discuss the 12 steps and how they work in their lives. If you do not have or think you have a problem with alcohol you can attend open meetings. Closed meetings are for Alcoholics or people who think they have a problem with alcohol. Look for either Step or Big book studies.

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PS this has been modified to fit other needs than alcohol; i.e., narcotics.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure 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 God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

different program have a different 12 steps programs which one are you interested in and hope that i have what you need.

I have worked through the 12 steps for Overeaters annonymous. And it is difficult - I believe to work on these steps.. Especially, the first one, is not an easy choice. Plus, you truly have to adopt them as a lifestyle. Recovery is a process.

1) We admitted we were powerless over ______—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) We're 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 other _____, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

I suggest that if you want to experience a 12 Step Recovery Program you should attend one. It is very enlightening..

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