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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 our 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 reprinted for adaptation with permission of
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Passage is taken from the "big book" of
CoDependents Anonymous, pg.25-26.
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