12 Step Recovery
Now if you suffer from pornography addiction or any other addiction for that matter and you looked around for some sort of way to treat it, then you probably already heard the 12 step recovery treatment. Now if you aren’t familiar with it, then here’s all the 12 steps for you.
Keep in mind that the 12 step recovery treatment is something that can be followed by someone following a certain faith. This won’t apply to you if you don’t believe in God or in a higher being or higher conscience. That being said, if you do believe in God, this is something that could be applied to almost any faith and the 12 step recovery treatment has been proven to work time and time again.
The 12 Step Recovery Program
1. We admitted that we were powerless over lust — 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 God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him 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 God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His 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 sexaholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
The 12 Step Recovery and Traditions are adapted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (“AAWS”). Permission to adapt and reprint the 12 Step and 12 Traditions does not mean that AAWS has approved the contents, of this publication, nor that AAWS agrees with the views expressed herein. AA is a program of recovery from alcoholism only. Use of the 12 Step Recovery and 12 Traditions in connection with programs which are patterned after AA, but which address other problems, or in any other non-AA context, does not imply otherwise.
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12 Step Recovery
