myRECOVERYspace
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Members seek freedom from
Alcoholism
Anorexia & Bulimia
Codependency
Gambling
Marijuana
Narcotics
Prescription Drugs
Overeating
Overspending
Pornography
Self-Injury
Sexual Promiscuity
Tobacco & Nicotine
myRECOVERYspace is social networking for recovery,
like a myspace for recovery of sorts
(myspace is a trademark of myspace.com)
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- Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable
- Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
- Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
- Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
- Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
- Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
- Step 7 - Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
- Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
- Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
- Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
- Step 11 - Sought 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 the power to carry that out
- Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
This version of the 12 steps is an adaptation from the
original 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and is intended for general use with any addictive or dysfunctional behavior.
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About the 12 Step Program
Twelve Step programs are well known for use in recovery from addictive or dysfunctional behaviors.
The first 12 step program began with
Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) in the 1930s.
The 12 Step approach has since grown to be the most widely used approach in dealing with not only alcoholism, but also drug abuse and various other addictive or dysfunctional behaviors.
The first book written to cover the 12 step program was titled "Alcoholics Anonymous", affectionately known as the Big Book by program members. Following the subsequent extensive growth of twelve step programs, numerous books and other media were created to cover the steps in more detail and for different addictive and dysfunctional behaviors.
The twelve steps of the program are listed above in generic form. These steps are meant to be worked sequentially as a process of getting rid of addictive behaviors and growing in freedom and happiness, as laid out in the
Twelve Promises.
There is a wealth of further information about 12 Step programs in the
Wikipedia, including a
list of 12 step groups.
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About 12Step.org
The 12Step.org web site strives to gather resources that make it easier to work a 12 step program. There is no official affiliation with A.A. or any other 12 Step group. Resources on this site for working a 12 step program include the following.
- Step Overview - An overview of the 12 steps with comments from various sources about how each step works
- References - Some classic references for working a 12 step program. These include the A.A. Big Book and the N.A. Basic Text.
- Tools - Various tools to help you work a 12 step program, including free journal software and free worksheets, as well as references to other worksheets on the web.
- Community - A place to share your own thoughts about the steps, comment in forums or upload your materials for others to use.
- Web Sites - Over 200 categorized links from across the web for easy browsing. You can also leave helpful comments about a site or rate a site.
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