- We admit that we are powerless over our dependencies and that our lives have become unmanageable.
- We come to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
- We make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to God as we understand him.
- We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- We admit to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- We humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.
- We make a list of all persons we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
- We make direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- We continue to take a personal inventory, and promptly admit when we are wrong.
- We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for the knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.