The Twelve Steps of
Our Recovery Programme
Do you want to get your own life in order?
In studying and applying the twelve step programme to our lives we learn....
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Our powerlessness over alcohol.
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To turn our lives and will over to a Higher Power.
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The need to change ourselves.
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To share what we have been given.
To go forward - Follow these steps...
Work at your own pace with an open mind, and willingness to do the best for
today, striving for progress not perfection!
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become
unmanageable.
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Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.
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Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God,
as we understood him.
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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature
of our wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects in character.
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Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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Made a list of all persons we had harmed and become willing to make amends
to them all.
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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so
would injure them or others.
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Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted
it.
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Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with
God, as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of His will for
us and the power to carry that out.
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Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried
to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all
our affairs.
Where can I find Help?
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Contact one of our Area Offices to find out more
information,
please click on the "MEETINGS" button for Area Offices
locations.
When Family and friends of problem drinkers meet, we give hope and
comfort to one another, to learn how to live comfortably in spite of
the effects of the disease of alcoholism.
Please read how our members share their experiences.
This is the official site of Al-Anon GSO South Africa produced
by grateful members carrying a message of hope.