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Grex Recovery Item 2: the twelve steps of AA
Entered by void on Tue Oct 8 12:40:21 UTC 1996:

   1. We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol -- that our lives
      had become unmanageable.
   2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us
      to sanity.
   3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a
      Higher Power.
   4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
   5. Admitted to our Higher Power, ourselves, and to another human being
      the exact nature of our wrongs.
   6. Were entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove all these
      defects of character.
   7. Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.
   8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make
      amends to them all.
   9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to
      do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
      admitted it.
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
      contact with our Higher Power, praying only for knowledge of our
      Higher Power's will for us and the power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we
      tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these
      principles in all our affairs.

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#1 of 1 by jaklumen on Mon May 20 11:55:21 2002:

I remember when I first heard the Twelve Steps, although I really 
didn't understand how they applied to me.  I was away from high school 
at a camp learning the Natural Helpers program that's implemented in 
many secondary schools.  We were told we weren't chosen by our peers, 
but rather our teachers, to serve as "role models."  I suspect now 
that we were identified as "at-risk" students, although we were a 
cross-sectional group.

I'll relate the story later.  It was my second time in a support group 
situation-- first time was in middle school.  My issues hadn't really 
peaked yet, although sexual addiction was beginning to smolder.  I 
suppose that's why I'm beginning to understand them now.

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