Grow's Writings -

12 Steps of Recovery and Personal Growth

1. We admitted we were inadequate or maladjusted to life.

(Which means I take personal responsibilty for my part in the problems of life I am experiencing)

2. We firmly resolved to get well and cooperated with the help that we needed

(I am committed to changing myself and am open to receiving necessary help from the Grow group)

3. We surrendered to the healing power of a wise and loving God

(I have a sense of an over arching power, bigger than me and all I can comprehend, which I may call good or nature and that some call God )

4. We made personal inventory and accepted ourselves

(I undertake with the group a stocktake of my strenghts and look to change the necessary things I can )

5.We made moral inventory and accepted ourselves

(I look at whether I am using my Gifts and Talents for improvment or for self - harm)

6. We endured until cured

(I'm in this process for the long haul )

7. We took care and control of our bodies

(This is a good place to start. I can change one little thing about myself that will change my whole life )

8. We learned to think by reason rather than by feelings and Imagination

(I need to understand the difference between facts and feelings if I want to restore order in my Life)

9. We trained our wills to govern our feelings

(I need to practice these new ways of thinking and acting consistently, until they become habitual )

10. We took our responsible and caring place in society

(I learn how to live in the real world )

11. We grew daily closer to maturity

(I accept personal growth as an ongoing task for the rest of my life )

12 We Carried GROW's hopeful healing and transforming message to others in similar need

(It is through caring about others as I have been cared about that an entirely new order comes into my life)

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