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This group helps alcoholics.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
This is alone is not sufficient to overcome alcoholism or addiction.
What is willpower?
This step involves asking a higher power to remove short-comings
What is step 7? "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings"
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is Step 10?
This is viewed as the only viable alternative for the addict or alcoholic.
What is life long abstinence?
In this step, my list looked like this.... · Wanting things my way · Wanting special treatment · Wanting others to meet my needs
What is step 4? Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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.
What is Step 11?
12 step groups believe that alcohol and addiction are considered this.
What is a chronic disease?
I knew that my higher power could help me feel sane again.
What is step 2? "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step 1?
Abstinence is not enough...the Twelve Steps also help you work on these personal flaws.
What are character defects?
This is what gets in the way of many who are recovering, lessened by having a belief in a higher power.
What is our ego?
In this step my list looked like this.... My Mom because I took money from her, My friend because I lied to her about everything, My boss because I didn't show up for the big presentation.
What is Step 8? "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all "
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.
What is Step 12?
Personal and public anonymity.
What is the foundation and protection of AA?
To stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
What is the primary purpose of AA?
We are empowered through this.
What is a higher power?
This step is related to Step 10.
What is Step 5? Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Dependent on the individual and their unique challenges. Can be lifelong.
What is the length of time required to complete AA?