12 steps to recovery, 12 steps to freedom from bondage, 12 steps to life without alcohol, drugs, gambling, overeating or other dependencies. 12 steps to finding a power outside yourself that will be the solution to your problems with drugs and alcohol. The 12 steps have been embraced by recovery communities and hundreds of support groups as a means of conquering alcoholism, addiction and dozens of other disorders. The 12 steps are also used as a model for alcoholism drug treatment in professional rehabilitation facilities such as Spencer Recovery Centers. If you or a loved one has a problems with drugs and alcohol, you can find the solution in the 12 steps but it is important to have proper guidance and instruction in the 12 steps as well.

A treatment facility like Spencer Recovery Centers has successfully introduced thousands of clients to the 12 steps through their treatment plans. Inpatient treatment, counseling and medical supervision is a logical place to begin recovery because it takes the client out of the environment that has enabled self-destruction to continue. Through an intensive treatment program that incorporates the 12 steps, Spencer clients are able to deal with their own truths and feel safe about being honest about their problems. The 12 steps is about admitting the problem, finding a solution to the problem and finding the power to enable the solution to work.

If you or a loved one needs help recovering from a problem with drugs and alcohol, please call Spencer Recovery Centers today. The call is confidential and our counselors can explain treatment options available. The 12 steps are a powerful process that can help with alcoholism, drug abuse and behavior disorders if properly implemented. Spencer Recovery Centers can give you or a loved one the foundation required to continue this on going process of recovery.

Call Spencer Recovery Centers today if you need help or have any questions on the 12 steps. These are the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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 with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His 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 alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.