San Diego County
Al-Anon Info Office
3108 Fifth Ave. #E
San Diego, Ca 92103
(619) 296-2666
The 12 Steps
Study of these Steps is essential to progress
in the Al-Anon program. The principles they embody are universal,
applicable to everyone, whatever your personal creed. In
Al-Anon, we strive for an ever-deeper understanding of these
Steps, and pray for the wisdom to apply them to our lives.
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our
lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over
to the care of God as we understood Him.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human
being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects
of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.
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.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to others,
and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
