12 steps AA/NA Program

12 steps of Alcoholic, Narcotic Anonymous Program

The Three Legacies of Alcoholic Anonymous fellowship are: recovery, unity and service.

The following are the original twelve steps as published by Alcoholics,Narcotics Anonymous

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol & drugs —that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

In some cases, where other twelve-step groups have adapted the AA steps as guiding principles, these have been altered to emphasize principles important to those particular fellowships, and to remove gender-biased language.

Twelve Traditions of AA/NA

The Twelve Traditions accompany the Twelve Steps. The Traditions provide guidelines for group governance. They were developed in AA/NA in order to help resolve conflicts in the areas of publicity, religion and finances. Most twelve-step fellowships have adopted these principles for their structural governance. The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Narcotic Anonymous are as follows.

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA/NA unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for AA/NA membership is a desire to stop using substance of choice.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA/NA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the person who still suffers.
6. An AA/NA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA/NA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every AA/NA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Alcoholics, Narcotic Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. AA/NA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. AA/NA has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA/NA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always to maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

Thika Counseling Home follows the traditional 12 step AA/NA Program. 

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