• NARANON FAMILY GROUPS • CALGARY • ALBERTA • CANADA •

1. We admitted we were powerless over the Addict -- 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/Our Higher Power as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God/Our Higher Power, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God/Our Higher Power remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God/Our Higher Power 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 whenever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God/Our Higher Power 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 a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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ELABORATION OF THE STEPS

• Step One • Step Two • Step Three • Step Four • Step Five • Step Six • Step Seven • Step Eight • Step Nine • Step Ten • Step Eleven • Step Twelve •