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SELF / MUTUAL HELP APPROACHES TO ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS

SELF / MUTUAL HELP APPROACHES TO ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS. 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. 1 . We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

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SELF / MUTUAL HELP APPROACHES TO ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS

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  1. SELF / MUTUAL HELP APPROACHES TO ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS

  2. 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - 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 understoodHim. 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.

  3. 12 Steps of AA (con’t) 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 moral inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted to it.

  4. 12 Steps of AA (con’t) 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.

  5. A.A. can be found almost everywhere, almost all the time – in more than 114,000 groups throughout the world.

  6. LENGTH OF SOBRIETY (YEARS)

  7. OTHER SELF HELP GROUPS – SMART RECOVERY

  8. OTHER SELF HELP GROUPS – WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY

  9. WFS groups are "closed" meetings; that is, they are not open to the public. Only women in recovery who are pursuing abstinence may attend. As a result, no outside visitors are permitted at our meetings.

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