Individual breakdown of the 12 Steps
Real people talking about their experience with the steps.
Step 1 at the Triangle Club
Step One “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable.” WHO cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an
Steps 4&5 With Danny
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” Step Four of AA's Twelve-Step Program of recovery is infamously the “scary” one, probably because it's a crucial step towards effective and lasting recovery. Step 5: We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”
Step 6 Entirely Ready
So now it’s time to allow a Higher Power to cut out these attitudes, beliefs and behaviors at the source. You get to partner up with your Higher Power and make a firm decision to let go of the character defects and flaws that have been ruling your life and seemed to have you hell bent on self destruction.