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12-Step Compulsion & Addiction Recovery Program
A Twelve Step program is a fellowship and addiction recovery
program that focuses on the consequences of an addiction, compulsion, or another
harmful influence. While originally introduced in 1935, today there are many
versions of Twelve Step programs, each addressing different addictions and
compulsions. We find that these programs create a good foundation for
recovery while fulfilling an important spiritual need; therefore, we offer
several 12 step groups, and clients are encouraged to attend daily meetings appropriate
to their individual challenges.
The twelve steps of alcohol rehabilitation in Alcoholics Anonymous are as follows:
- Admit that we are powerless over alcohol and that our lives have become unmanageable.
- Come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
- Turn our will and our lives over to the care of a Higher Power.
- Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admit to a Higher Power, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Be entirely ready to have a Higher Power remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly ask a Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.
- Make a list of all persons we have harmed, and be willing to make amends to them all.
- Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit it.
- Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with a Higher Power, praying only for knowledge of the Higher
Power's will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these
steps, try to carry this message to other alcoholics, and to practice
these principles in all of our affairs.
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