The Twelve Steps
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that
our lives had become unmanageable.
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Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
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Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over
to the care of God as we understood Him.
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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
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Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to have God remove all these
defects of character.
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Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and
became willing to make amends to them all.
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Made direct amends to such people whenever
possible, except when to do so would injure
them or others.
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Continued to take personal inventory and when
we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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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.
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Having had a spiritual awakening as the 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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The Twelve Traditions
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Our common welfare should come first, personal progress for the
greatest number depends upon unity.
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For our group purpose there is but one authority - a loving God as He
may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but
trusted servants; they do not govern.
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The relatives of alcoholics, when gathered together for mutual aid, may
call themselves an Al-Anon Family Group, provided that as a group,
they have no other affiliation. The only requirement for membership is
that there be a problem of alcoholism in a relative or friend.
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Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting another
group or Al-Anon or AA as a whole.
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Each Al-Anon Family Group has but one purpose: to help families of
alcoholics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of AA ourselves,
by encouraging and understanding our alcoholic relatives, and by
welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcoholics.
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Our Family Groups ought never endorse, finance or lend our
name to any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and
prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim. Although a separate
entity, we should always cooperate with Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Every group ought to be fully self-supporting declining outside
contributions.
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Al-Anon Twelfth-Step work should remain forever non-professional, but
our service centers may employ special workers.
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Our groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
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The Al-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence
our name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
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Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than
promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of
press, radio, TV and films. We need guard with special care the
anonymity of all AA members.
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Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our
Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities.
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