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1.) We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
I screwed up and relapsed. Lucky I'm not deadinsaneorinjail. I am out of control and have no accountability for anything I do because I was drunk/high at the time.
2.) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
I relapsed and have to go back to AARC because they saved my life so far and are the only ones who can continue to save my life.
3.) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
See number two.
4.) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Just add recent screw-up/relapse onto previous moral inventory.
5.) Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Admit to AARC, peer and clinical counsellers as well as all the other clients the exact nature of how the rest of our lives was nothing but bad because we've become nothing but the drug/alcohol. Admit that even the bad stuff that happened to us was our own fault.
6.) Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Again, see number two
7.) Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Guess they weren't removed good enough last time, cause I screwed up/relapsed, next time I'll be deadinsaneorinjail
8.) Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Unless it's persons in the AARC program because they are responsible for anything bad that happened to them
9.) Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
See number eight
10.) Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
See number four
11.) 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.
Attend more meetings at AARC
12.) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Having had no contact with the outside world, deprived an education and exposed to months of repeated dogma could be seen as a "spiritual awakening" and we're easily convinced to carry this message and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
A'men
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