Step One
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step Two
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step Three
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Step Four
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step Five
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step Six
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Step Seven
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Step Eight
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step Nine
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step Ten
Continued to take a personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step Eleven
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.
Step Twelve
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.
First Promise
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
Second Promise
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
Third Promise
We will comprehend the word serenity.
Fourth Promise
We will know peace.
Fifth Promise
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
Sixth Promise
The feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
Seventh Promise
We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
Eighth Promise
Self-seeking will slip away.
Ninth Promise
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Tenth Promise
Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us.
Eleventh Promise
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
Twelfth Promise
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.