The 12 Steps
This step establishes the foundation of recovery by requiring acceptance of a problem before any solution is considered.
What is Step 1?
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
This is the nickname for the book Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is the Big Book?
These are people who help guide newer members through the program.
What is a sponsor?
“One day at a time” means focusing on this time frame.
What is today?
This year marks the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, following a meeting between its two co-founders in Akron, Ohio.
What is 1935?
This step transforms self-knowledge into vulnerability by requiring it to be shared.
What is Step 5?
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
This chapter explains why alcoholics can’t safely drink, using both physical and mental reasons.
What is “The Doctor’s Opinion”?
This phrase describes AA’s primary purpose, often summarized as helping others achieve sobriety.
What is “to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers”?
This city is considered the birthplace of AA, where the first successful recovery meeting between the founders took place.
What is Akron, Ohio?
This chapter is often read first and explains the basic problem and solution in a simple way.
What is “There Is a Solution”?
This principle is emphasized in AA to ensure no single member represents the organization publicly.
What is anonymity?
This step is about taking a deep look at yourself and your past and taking a personal inventory.
What is Step 4?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
This chapter focuses on people who don’t believe in God and explains how the program can still work for them.
What is “We Agnostics”?
Meetings often start and end with this short prayer.
What is the Serenity Prayer?
This AA slogan reminds members to take life slowly and carefully.
What is “Easy does it”?
This step is about starting to believe that help is possible.
What is Step 2?
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
This chapter gives advice on how to approach and help another alcoholic.
What is “Working With Others”?
“Progress, not ___.”
What is perfection?
This term describes the group of people in AA who meet regularly to support each other.
What is a fellowship / meeting group?