1.we admit that we are powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfuntion,that our lives had become unmanageble.


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 understand him.


4.made a seachering and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.


5. admitted to god and to ourselves and to another human being the excat nature of our wrongs.


6 were entirely ready to have god remove all these chraracter defects.


7. humbally asked god to remove our shortcomings


8. made a list of all the people 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 cause injury to them or others.


10.continue to take personal inventory, and when we are wrong promptly admit it.


11.sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with god, as we understand god, praying only for the knowledge of gods will for us and the power to carry it out.

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12.having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry the message to others who still suffer and practice these principles in all our affairs.