Step Study
A personal journey through the 12 Steps of recovery in a supportive, confidential group setting.
Going through the 12-step program of Celebrate Recovery can be beneficial for a person for several reasons:
Personal Growth: Participants often experience significant personal development and spiritual growth.
Support System: It provides a community of like-minded individuals who understand the journey toward recovery, offering encouragement and friendship.
Coping Mechanisms: The program helps individuals discover new coping mechanisms for dealing with their struggles.
Healing: Celebrate Recovery aims to aid in the recovery of the whole person – mind, body, and soul, promoting comprehensive healing.
Spiritual Connection: One of the greatest benefits is the connection that participants may make with God, which can strengthen their faith.
Responsibility and Commitment: It emphasizes personal responsibility and calls for a commitment to a higher power, which can lead to lasting change.
These benefits contribute to a healthier lifestyle free from addictive behaviors and help individuals find a new purpose for living.
12 Steps
The 12 steps of Celebrate Recovery are a set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems, inspired by the teachings of Christianity. Here they are:
1. Admit Powerlessness: Acknowledge being powerless over addictions and compulsive behaviors, and that life has become unmanageable.
2. Believe in God: Believe that a power greater than oneself can restore sanity.
3. Decide to Turn Over Our Lives: Make a decision to turn one’s will and life over to the care of God.
4. Take a Moral Inventory: Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of oneself.
5. Admit Wrongs: Admit to God, to oneself, and to another human being the exact nature of one’s wrongs.
6. Be Ready for God to Remove Defects: Be entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly Ask God to Remove Shortcomings: Humbly ask Him to remove shortcomings.
8. List of Persons Harmed: Make a list of all persons harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
9. Make Direct Amends: Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continue Personal Inventory: Continue to take personal inventory and promptly admit when wrong.
11. Prayer and Meditation: Seek through prayer and meditation to improve conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Spiritual Awakening: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all affairs
These steps are designed to be worked in sequence as a process of getting rid of addictive behaviors and growing closer to God.
