Traditional Treatment

Traditional 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

Our Traditional 12-Step Program presents the spiritual base for the recovery process as found within Alcoholics Anonymous and is based on God as the individual has come to understand Him.  The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous states that:

"We are not saints.

The point is that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.

We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection . . .

We came to believe and accept:

That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.

That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.

That God could and would if He were sought."

    Traditional 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--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 alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.