A way of working the steps

Step Zero: Why Take the Steps

Homework:

Read "The Doctor's Opinion" - AA Big Book pages XXV-XXXII

Read "The Problem" and "Sexaholism--The Addiction" - SA White Book pages 29-37

Step One: The Four Prerequisites

1. We admitted that we were powerless over lust-that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step Two: I'm Insane

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step Three: It's Only a Decision

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over the care of God as we understood Him.

Steps Three and Four: Relief from Bondage

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Steps Four: Gateway to a Spiritual Experience

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Steps 4, 5, 6, and 7: What About My Part?

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.

Steps 8 and 9: Forgiveness and Amends

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.

Steps 9 and 10: Amends to Freedom

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.

Steps 10 and 11: Promptly to Freedom

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.

Step 12: A Spiritual Experience

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.