We were entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character and humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. (Steps 6 & 7 of the Twelve Steps)

We admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. (Step 5 of the Twelve Steps)

We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. (Step 4 of the Twelve Steps)

We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. - Step 3 of the Twelve Steps

We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. - Step 3 of the Twelve Steps

We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (Step 2 of the Twelve Steps)

We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (Step 2 of the Twelve Steps)

We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and that our lives had become unmanageable. (Step 1 of the Twelve Steps)

We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and that our lives had become unmanageable. (Step 1 of the Twelve Steps)

We are all addicts. Substance addictions like alcohol and drugs are merely the most visible forms of addiction, but actually we are all addicted to our own habitual way of doing anything, our own defenses, and most especially, our patterned way of thinking. This addiction is what the biblical tradition called “sin.”