12 Steps

I want to post, again, about the 12 Steps to Recovery.

Regardless of what recovery program you are going through, each has 12 steps. 

And, although the wording may be more specific to your particular addiction, they are all generally the very same.

I attend the ARP (Addiction Recovery Program) through the LDS Church.

It is a general recovery program for ALL addictions.

The twelve steps for ARP read as:

Step 1

Admit that you, of yourself, are powerless to overcome your addictions and that your life has become unmanageable.

Step 2

Come to believe that the power of God can restore you to complete spiritual health.

Step 3

Decide to turn your will and your life over to the care of God the Eternal Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.

Step 4

Make a searching and fearless written moral inventory of yourself.

Step 5

Admit to yourself, to your Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, to proper priesthood authority, and to another person the exact nature of your wrongs.

Step 6

Become entirely ready to have God remove all your character weaknesses.

Step 7

Humbly ask Heavenly Father to remove your shortcomings.

Step 8

Make a written list of all persons you have harmed and become willing to make restitution to them.

Step 9

Wherever possible, make direct restitution to all persons you have harmed.

Step 10

Continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong promptly admit it.

Step 11

Seek through prayer and meditation to know the Lord’s will and to have the power to carry it out.

Step 12

Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, share this message with others and practice these principles in all you do.

There is a lot of research that has been done to create the twelve steps.

There is healing and active recovery that takes place within these steps.

However, they are meant to be done again and again and again.

Recovery is not a one time and done.

It is active!