The Twelve Steps of Co-Dependents Anonymous
- We admitted
we were powerless over others - that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood
God.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature
of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends
to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so
would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted
it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with
God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us
and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried
to carry this message to other codependents, and to practice these principles
in all our affairs.
The Twelve Steps of Co-Dependents Anonymous
is reprinted from the website www.CoDA.org with permission of Co-Dependents
Anonymous, Inc. (CoDA, Inc). Permission to reprint this material does not
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Co-Dependents Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common
purpose is to develop healthy relationships and is not affiliated with any
other 12 step program.
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