On your journey to practice the 12 Steps, you have taken a great amount of personal inventory and done your best to right your wrongs and modify your behavior. Step 12 is focused on service, which allows you to move outward in your recovery. LDS Principles and the 12...
Step 10 in the 12 step program is a continuation of steps 4, 8, and 9, as you continue to take personal inventory and promptly admit when you are wrong. The house cleaning that you’ve undertaken is a concentrated version of a process that you will need to continue to...
Step 9 is one of the most cleansing portions of the 12 step program. In this step, you take action to free yourself from guilt and shame. This step allows you to gain confidence in your ability to be successful in recovery. You are also able to repair your support...
In step 8, you make a list of all the people you have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all. The work that you did in step 4, taking a moral inventory of yourself, will be useful as you work to make amends. You’ve probably already discovered many of the...
Step 7 is a step that requires action after a period of thought and personal reflection, similar to step 3. In step 7, you must humbly ask God to remove your shortcomings. You prepared for this in step 6 when you became willing to allow God to do this, and in step 7...
Once you’ve taken a careful personal inventory and identified what your shortcomings are, it’s time to work at overcoming them. Before you can do this, make sure your mind and your heart are in the right place, and that you’re mentally and spiritually prepared to make...
We last left off on our journey at step 4, where we met ourselves and others with honesty—examining our relationships and cataloging our strengths and weaknesses. Rebuilding ourselves can feel even more troubling when we’ve just performed intense self-examination and...
The first three steps in the 12-Step program are about recognizing a higher power and discovering hope through Him. The next phase of the 12-Steps, which includes steps 4-7, is about searching one’s soul and addressing shortcomings. The strength that you’ve gained as...
Steps 1 and 2 of the 12-Step program deal with life realizations and internal discoveries. Step 3 is the first step that actually asks you to DO something- it asks you to make a decision. Step 3 is, “We made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of...
In step 1, you admitted that your life is unmanageable and that you have no power over your addiction on your own. Step 2 is about developing a relationship with a Higher Power and calling on Him to strengthen you throughout your recovery. The second step of the...
