12 Steps To Recovery

Step One

We admit that we are powerless over our emotions, that our lives

have become unmanageable.

Step Two

We have come to believe that a power greater than ourselves

could restore us to sanity.

Step Three

Make a decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of

God as we understand God.

Step Four

Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step Five

Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the

exact nature of our wrongs.

Step Six

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of

character.

Step Seven

Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

Step Eight

Make a list of all persons we had harmed, and become willing to

make amends to them all.

Step Nine

Make direct amend to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step Ten

Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong

promptly admit it.

Step Eleven

Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and power to carry that out.

Step Twelve                                      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.

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity

to accept the things t cannot change;

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

As it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right

If I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life

and supremely happy with Him

Forever In the next.

Arnen.

Although the 12 Steps and the program itself isn't for "everyone", it does benefit manypeople. Listed above are the 12 Steps from the NA program for those of you that are

unaware of the guidelines that the members try and work through when trying to dealwith breaking free from drugs. Each person starts with step one and gradually moves on to the next as they work the program. Even if you are not an NA member, these steps can benefit people in many ways. People seeking to relieve themselves and put some structure back into their lives by gaining strength by releasing themselves of some of the burdens a regular life or of an addictive life, through following the basic steps.