Step 1 - Spiritual Principles: Insight, Honesty
- Adult Children of Alcoholics: We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Tony A’s Twelve Steps: We admitted we were powerless over the effects of living with alcoholism and that our lives had become unmanageable.
- The Proactive Twelve Steps: I get it: What I’ve been doing is self-destructive. I need to change.
- The Alternative 12 Steps: Admit we are powerless over other people, random events and our own persistent negative behaviors, and that when we forget this, our lives become unmanageable.
- The Practical 12 Steps: Admitted we were caught in a self-destructive cycle and currently lacked the tools to stop it.
“Find out what works, and do more of that.” Steve de Shazer
References: https://silkworth.net/alcoholics-anonymous/28-oxford-group-principles-from-anne-smiths-journal-1933-1939/
https://www.aacle.org/origin-of-the-twelve-steps/
http://www.aaagnostics.org/agnostic12steps.html
https://sites.google.com/site/aspiritualrecovery/the-12-step-interpretations/proactive-steps
https://adultchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/Literature/The_ACA_Twelve_Steps_EN-US_A4.pdf
The Alternative 12 Steps: A Secular Guide to Recover 2nd Edition by Martha Cleveland, Ph.D. and Arlys G.
Staying Sober Without God: The Practical 12 Steps to Long-Term Recovery from Alcoholism & Addictions.
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