Step Study Resources

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Step One
Powerless

We admitted that we were powerless over our problems - that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step Two
Greater Power

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step Three
Turn It Over

We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God.

Step Four
Inventory

We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step Five
Admit

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step Six
Ready

We were entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character. 

Step Seven

We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

Step Eight

We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step Nine

We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step Ten

We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

Step Eleven

We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry it out.

Step Twelve

Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.