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issues and approaches
twelve step program
psychospiritual approaches
definition
In summary, there are three pertinent principles:
1. That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
2. That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
3. That God could and would if He were sought, that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked us off from him.
The twelve step recovery program:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe 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.
(Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 59, 71)
uses: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA), Overeaters Anonymous (OA), CoDependents Anonymous (CoDA), Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA), AlAnon (for relationships affected by alcoholism)
see also:
Conditions:
addiction; anger; depression; obesity
see:
addiction: psychosocial approach
hologram of an alcoholic
meditation: forgiveness
process paradigm
recovery: precautions with AA programs
recovery: stages of treatment
search for god
state-dependent learning
subjective inquiry approach
the shadow and physical symptoms
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