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- The process is called “working the steps” for a reason. Each step requires exhaustive mental work alongside practical steps. The 12-steps are designed to help us better understand where our addiction stems from and what we can do about it.
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Beginning in the early 1980s, we began receiving Twelve Step guides and step worksheets along with requests that we develop a standard set of guides for the NA Fellowship to use in working through the Twelve Steps.
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begin working the First Step, we must become abstinent-whatever it takes. If we're new in Narcotics Anonymous and our First Step is primarily about looking at the effects of drug addiction in our lives, we need to get clean.
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A free 1st step worksheet for AA, NA and other 12 step programs. Step 1 worksheet includes questions in PDF or DOC format and is free to print or download.
- Honesty: After many years of denial, recovery can begin with one simple admission of being powerless over alcohol or any other drug a person is addicted to.
- Faith: Before a higher power can begin to operate, you must first believe that it can. Someone with an addiction accepts that there is a higher power to help them heal.
- Surrender: You can change your self-destructive decisions by recognizing that you alone cannot recover; with help from your higher power, you can.
- Soul searching: The person in recovery must identify their problems and get a clear picture of how their behavior affected themselves and others around them.
A Guide to Working the 12 Steps. To a newcomer, a 12-step program can be overwhelming. You may look at dramatic concepts such as making amends or reaching a spiritual awakening and wonder what that means in practical terms. Your first source for the substantive content of each step should be your sponsor.
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The Grey Form Step Working Guide STEP ONE We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable. In step one we first Admit something. We begin to practice honesty as we admit our powerlessness. The implied phrase is “we were powerless”. This is written in past tense. What is it that we were powerless ...
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