Twelve Steps (secular)

Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that 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 such power.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have all these defects of character removed.
7. Humbly sought to become free of 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 to improve our conscious contact with power greater than ourselves, seeking the right thing to do and the power to carry it out.
12. Having had an awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.