12-Step Approach
Using the 12-Step Approach
At Peaks Recovery Centers, we understand the benefit of incorporating the 12 Steps into an individual’s treatment program because the approach carries widely accepted and applicable fundamentals that clients can use to help accomplish long-term recovery.
Please note that Peaks Recovery Centers’ program, culture, and curriculum do not incorporate components of the 12-step program. Peaks Recovery’s team will support a client if they feel that attending an outside, non-affiliated, self-help group would benefit their individual recovery. These “self-help groups” can include 12 steps, AA, NA, NAMI, Al-Anon, DHARMA, etc.
What Are The 12-Steps?
Step 1
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Learn more about Step 1 Here.
Step 2
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Learn more about Step 2 Here.
Step 3
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Learn more about Step 3 Here.
Step 4
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Learn more about Step 4 Here.
Step 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Learn more about Step 5 Here.
Step 6
We’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Learn more about Step 6 Here.
Step 7
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Learn more about Step 7 Here.
Step 8
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
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Step 9
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 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
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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