Recovery

Am I Addicted?

Here’s a simple list of 29 questions to find out if you’re truly addicted.  Answer each question honestly.  Then, if you’re willing, take a look at the steps you’ll need to take as you pursue your journey of recovery.

 

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The 12 Steps

Based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, these simple spiritual principals are the worlds foremost proven guide to successful recovery and freedom from addiction.

 

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Freedom is Within Reach

There’s three things you’ll need to begin a successful journey of recovery; enough MISERY, enough WILLINGNESS and enough HUMILITY.  If you have those three things, you’re ready to begin your journey towards freedom.

 

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Misery

The first thing you’ll need to begin your journey…enough MISERY.

 

NEXT: Willingness >>>

Willingness

Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get well?  You won’t be able to complete your journey without enough WILLINGNESS.

 

NEXT:  Humility >>>

Humility

It’s a proper understanding of your relationship to God and it’s the final piece of equipment you’ll need to get started…HUMILITY.

 

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Step One

Powerless

We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step Two

Hope

We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step Three

Faith

We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God.

Step Four

Courage

We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step Five

Integrity

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step Six

Willingness

We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Step Seven

Humility

We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.

Step Eight

Discipline & Action

We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step Nine

Forgiveness

We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step Ten

Acceptance

We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

Step Eleven

Knowledge & Awareness

We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry it out.

Step Twelve

Service & Gratitude

Having had a spiritual experience as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.