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1. We admitted: - We were powerless over our addiction(s) - That our lives had become unmanageable.
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2. We came to believe that a power greater then ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Higher Power (as we understand it to be).
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4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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5. We admitted to our Higher Power, ourselves and to another person the exact nature of our wrongs.
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6. We were entirely ready to have our Higher Power Remove all of these defects of character.
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7. We humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.
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8. We made a list of all the people we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
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9. We made a direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or another person.
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10. We continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit it.
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11. We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power, praying only for knowledge of our purpose and the power to carry that out.
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12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry this message to other addicts and practice these principles in all our affairs.
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