The Twelve Steps – Program of Recovery used by The Launching Pad
Most alcoholics and addicts lack discipline and a sustainable blueprint for living a life conducive for permanent recovery. The Twelve Steps offer an opportunity to have a transformational experience which affords us a new way of living. If practiced on a continuous basis, they will create a personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from an addiction to any mind-altering substance. Upon this firm bedrock, a new, wonderful and meaningful life can be built.
- We admitted we were powerless over all mind-altering substances — 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 addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.