1. We admitted we were powerless over our emotions, that our lives had become unmanageable.2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.11. 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.12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to emotionally and mentally ill persons and to practice these principles in all our affairs.Jerry Hirschfield
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1. We admitted that we needed help. 2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could help us.
3. We decided to turn our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4.
We made a personal moral inventory of ourselves. 5. We admitted our wrongs to God, other people, and ourselves.
6. We asked for their forgiveness for the wrongs we had committed against them. 7.
We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings, and made amends for whatever harm was due them by acting in good faith to correct that harm as soon as possible. 8. We tried to live according to this new way of thinking about life, making amends where necessary, and trying always to do the right thing at every step of the way.
9. Our goal was not just to avoid being caught by other people doing wrong things but to be all that we could be in the eyes of God and others so they would be proud of us and want to be like us or work with us again in the future, which always happens when we become more honest and earnest in our dealings with others than we ever were before we took these steps toward honesty and integrity in our lives. 10.
If we prayed for knowledge of God’s will for us and for power or ability to carry out what He wanted us to do, He answered these prayers in a manner most helpful to us at the time and most helpful in building up a trust in Him so we wouldn’t be afraid or feel inadequate when things got tough or when others were critical of our ideas or actions because they didn’t fit into the mold they thought they expected from us because we were sick with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) !!!!
Source: The Twelve Steps For Everyone: Who Really Wants Them
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