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Step 9: Making Amends

by Paul Tucker | Mar 26, 2017 | AA, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Alumni, Company Updates, Detox, Industry News, Info Articles, NA, Sober Living

  Once we’ve created our list of those needing our apologies, it’s time to go out and apologize to them and mend the broken relationships as best as we can. The traditional wording of Step Nine is: “Made direct amends to such people whenever possible,...

Step 8: Creating an Amends List

by Paul Tucker | Mar 14, 2017 | AA, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Alumni, Company Updates, Detox, Info Articles, NA, Sober Living

  Step Eight of the Twelve Steps involves making a list of all those who were harmed by our addictions. The traditional wording of Step Eight is: “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” The Alternative 12 Steps...

Step 7: Embracing Humility

by Paul Tucker | Mar 4, 2017 | AA, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Alumni, Detox, Industry News, Info Articles, NA, Sober Living

  Step Seven in the Twelve Steps asks us to embrace humility and remove our shortcomings. In the traditional wording, Step Seven reads: “Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.” In the Alternative Twelve Steps: A Secular Guide to Recovery, step seven reads:...

Step 6: Ready and Willing to Change Ourselves

by Paul Tucker | Feb 25, 2017 | AA, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Detox, Info Articles, NA, Sober Living

  Step six is one of the more opaque steps in a Twelve-Step program. Step Six as originally written says: “We are entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character. In The Alternative Twelve Steps, step six says: “Be entirely ready to acknowledge our...

Step 5: Admitting the exact nature of our wrongs

by Paul Tucker | Feb 11, 2017 | AA, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Alumni, Detox, Info Articles, Interventions, NA

  Once we’ve examined our lives and come to an open, and honest, inventory of how our lives are going, it’s time to “face the music.” Step Five is: “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” Put another way, Step...

Step 4: Taking a Moral Inventory

by Paul Tucker | Feb 6, 2017 | AA, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Company Updates, Detox, Industry News, Info Articles, NA, Sober Living

After surrender, the next of the twelve steps involves taking inventory to start to determine where the addictive urge is stemming from. Step Four reads: “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” A second way of phrasing Step Four is: “Search...
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