Some Thoughts About 12 Step Programs

The 12 step program has traditionally been based on Christian ideology but can be changed to meet each individual’s recovery needs. Of course, there are twelve levels to the program. According to www.12step.org, the steps are as follows: The first step is to relinquish power or powerlessness, in other words, the person’s life spins out of control when the alcohol, drug or other damaging element is present.

The forth step is made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. This step is another one closely tied to religion as anyone who has sat in a confessional will attest. The moral inventory leads to the fifth level of the 12 step program in which the individual admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs or it is called honesty.

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