What Are the Twelve Steps of Recovery?
The Twelve Steps are a set of guiding principles in addiction treatment that outline a course of action for tackling problems including alcoholism, drug addiction and compulsion.
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addiction—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 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.
Step 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.
RECOVERY GROUPS LEADERSHIP & CONTACT INFORMATION
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Harmony Home Narcotics Anonymous Sun. 4:00 p.m. Mon. 7:30 p.m. Speaker Meeting Sun. 6:30 p.m. House Meeting Sun. 7:30 p.m. Life Skills Tues. 6:00 p.m. Group Study Sat. 11:00 a.m.
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Robert Knorr 260-515-0656 |
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Celebrate Recovery Mon. 6:30 p.m. |
Rocky McComas rockywaynesobersoldier@gmail.com 260-519-3475 |
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Brianna’s Hope Tues. 6:00 p.m. |
Taylor Falk 260-415-0235 |
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Narcotics Anonymous Wed. 7:30 p.m. |
Bryan Gamlin 818-945-9747 |
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AA Big Book Study Thurs. 7:30 p.m. |
Geoff Fugate 260-224-7166 |
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Alcoholics Anonymous/AlaNon Fri. 7:30 p.m. |
Bill Lucker 260-519-0327 |
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Ground Zero Speaker Meeting 4th Sat. 5:30 p.m. |
Jeff Diamond 260-355-9364 |
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Shannon project.period.recover.itworks@gmail.com 260-200-0456 |
Just for today:
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Pain and misery were realities in our using lives. We were unwilling either to accept our living situation or to change what was unacceptable in our lives. We attempted to escape life's pain by taking drugs, but using only compounded our troubles. Our altered sense of reality became a nightmare.
Through living the program of Narcotics Anonymous, we learn that our dreams can replace our nightmares. We grow and change. We acquire the freedom of choice. We are able to give and receive love. We can share honestly about ourselves, no longer magnifying or minimizing the truth. We accept the challenges real life offers us, facing them in a mature, responsible way.
Although recovery does not give us immunity from the realities of life, in the NA Fellowship we can find the support, genuine care, and concern we need to face those realities. We need never hide from reality by using drugs again, for our unity with other recovering addicts gives us strength. Today the support, the care, and the empathy of recovery give us a clean, clear window through which to view, experience, and appreciate reality as it is.
Clickable Links to Resources
God, grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change…
Courage to change the things I can,
And Wisdom to know the difference.
Links:
Huntington County Resources (PDF’s)
Page 1 & Page 2
AA.org Daily Reflections
Read the Big Blue Book Online
Al-Anon Resources (Free)
12 Traditions in Alcoholics Anonymous
12 Promises
NA Meeting – What to expect
AA District 75 Meetings – Northeast Indiana
Visit Recovery-IT WORKS! Facebook group (local)
Brianna’s Hope Facebook Group (local)
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