12 Steps

Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery: 

1. We admitted we were powerless over Life – and that trauma had made our lives unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that self-acceptance and self-actualization could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to look deep within ourselves for our truest most authentic being.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our trauma.

5. Admitted our struggles to our self and when safe to do so, others.

6. Prepared ourselves to work through our distress with safety and made a commitment, however small, to do so.

7. We humbly enter each morning seeking a better day than the day before.

8. When ready, made a list of people we may have hurt in our distress and made amends to them unless to do so would cause further injury. This list may include ourselves.

9. We recognize our points of progress and allow ourselves to integrate improvements.

10. Sought emotional, mental, and social stability through daily reflective inventories.

11. Through self-acceptance and self-actualization, we improve our conscious contact with our self in each moment, and harness the power to continue living in it. 

12. Having found our True Self through acceptance, we continue to be mindful and grow as a result of our efforts, and we share our story with others and continue to practice these principles in all our affairs.