Twelve Steps
How long is a 12-step program?
Most sponsors encourage the AA/NA newcomer to attend 90 meetings in 90 days. That may seem like a lot and it may seem like a long time to commit to going to meetings. However, most 12-step programs, including those for people addicted to drugs, encourage new members to commit to those 90 meetings in 90 days.
Step One
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step Three
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Step Five
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step Two
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step Four
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step Six
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Step Seven
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Step Nine
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step Eleven
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.
Step Eight
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step Ten
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step Twelve
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.