ACA Steps

Step 1We admitted we were powerless over the effects of family dysfunction — that our lives had become unmanageable.Step 2We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.Step 3We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.Step 4We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.Step 5We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.Step 6We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.Step 7We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.Step 8We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.Step 9We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.Step 10We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.Step 11We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God.Step 12Having 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.