Step 1 - Spiritual Principles:  Insight, Honesty

1. Adult Children of Alcoholics:  We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Tony A’s Twelve Steps:  We admitted we were powerless over the effects of living with alcoholism and that our lives had become unmanageable.
3. The Proactive Twelve Steps:  I get it:  What I’ve been doing is self-destructive.  I need to change.
4. 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.
5. 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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