12-Step Program

If you are using 12-step Alcohol Anonymous (AA) meetings as one means of maintaining sobriety after rehab, another person has likely suggested that you seek out a sponsor.

Step 1 of the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous states as follows: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”

The second step in the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is as follows: “We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”

The third step in the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous Reads as follows: “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”

Step 4 of Alcoholics Anonymous – “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” The fourth step in the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step journey to sobriety requires the member to recognize their own weaknesses.

The fifth step in the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous reads as follows: “We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”

Step 6 in the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous reads as the following: “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”

Step 7 of Alcoholics Anonymous states the following: “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” 

Step 8 of the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous requires participants to have done the following: “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.”

Step 9 of the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous reads as follows: “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.”