Recovery Definitions
To admit or grant that something is true, or to surrender to your innermost self that you are an addict.
What is Concede?
Lacking the power, ability, or resources to manage or resist a substance or behavior on your own.
What is Powerless?
The underlying principle of Step 4 that requires facing uncomfortable truths and taking a moral inventory of yourself without backing down.
What is Courage?
The spiritual principle of Step 1, which means adhering strictly to the facts and discarding denial about your addiction.
What is Honesty?
To recognize or receive something as a reality, shifting from trying to force an outcome to finding peace with things as they are.
What is Accept?