12 Steps
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.
powerless
(Step 1)
The only requirement for A.A. membership is a ------ to stop drinking.
desire
(3rd Tradition)
We will not ------ the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
regret
(Promise 3)
We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to ------- our drinking.
control
(Page 30)
To be ------ to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to make.
doomed
(Page 44)
Made a -------- to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
decision
(Step 3)
Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside -------------.
contributions
(7th Tradition)
We are going to know a new ------- and a new happiness.
freedom
(Promise 2)
Most of us have believed that if we remained ----- for a long stretch, we could thereafter drink normally.
sober
(Page 33)
We never gave the --------- side of life a fair hearing.
spiritual
(Page 50)
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of ---------.
character
(Step 6)
Our public relations policy is based on ---------- rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
attraction
(11th Tradition)
We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know -----.
peace
(Promise 4)
We are like men who have lost their ----, they never grow new ones.
legs
(Page 30)
If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were ---------- to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago.
sufficient
(Page 44-45)
Made a searching and -------- moral inventory of ourselves.
fearless
(Step 4)
An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary -------.
purpose
(6th Tradition)
Fear of people and of economic ---------- will leave us.
insecurity
(Promise 10)
In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse -------.
relapse
(Page 31)
We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons...were demonstrating a degree of stability, happiness, and usefulness which we should have ------ ourselves.
sought
(Page 49)
Continued to take personal --------- and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
inventory
(Step 10)
Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. -----.
unity
(1st Tradition)
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our ---------- can benefit others.
experience
(Promise 5)
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of ---- - ---------
(2 words, hyphenated)
self-knowledge
(Page 39)
We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a ----------- to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.
willingness
(Page 46)