After our first face to face, whether irl or over video chat, I will send you a link to a Google Drive which will have all the readings and questions for each step. In the mean time here are the links to literature we may use. Please remember that I use the AA Big Book or EDA Big Book simply because they are the ones I am most familiar with, but we may use a different literature or process. Please keep in mind we will do things in a way that will work best for you as an individual.
The 12 Steps MODIFIED without permission and for my personal use
1. We admitted we were powerless — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power or purpose greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a higher power or purpose of our own understanding.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to ourselves, to another human being, and optionally to a higher power the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have all these defects of character removed.
7. Humbly asked for our shortcomings to be removed..
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 as we understood it, praying only for knowledge of the proper use of 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 others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Literature I may reference:
CoDA Book (Blue Book)
ACA Fellowship Text (Big Red Book)
*EDA Twelve Step Annotation: “God” in EDA literature can mean the Deity, a deity, a spiritual entity of one’s own understanding (a Higher Power), or a non-spiritual conception (a higher purpose). Reliance on any one of these conceptions confers a perspective that transcends our immediate physical, social, and emotional circumstances and allows us to “keep calm and carry on” with what really matters. The term “spiritual awakening” can refer to an event – a vital spiritual experience – or to a gradual change. Those of us who are atheists also experience a transformation, enabling us to place service before selfishness.