THE RECOVERY PROGRAM
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- 1. We admitted we were powerless over gambling - that our lives had become unmanageable.
- 2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to a normal way of thinking and living.
- 3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this power of our own understanding. 4. We made a searching and fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves.
- 5. We admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- 6. We were entirely ready to have these defects of character removed.
- 7. We humbly asked God (of our understanding) to remove our shortcomings.
- 8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- 9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- 10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- 11. We sought through prayer or meditation to improve our consciousness, and the power to carry that out.
- 12. We made an effort to practice these principles in all our affairs, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive gamblers.
Here are the steps we take:
