Recovering Couples Anonymous World Service Organization

Recovering Couples Anonymous
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The Twelve Steps of RCA

Step One	Step Two	Step Three	Step Four	Step Five	Step Six
Step Seven	Step Eight	Step Nine	Step Ten	Step Eleven	Step Twelve

Step 12

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to other couples, and to practice these principles in all aspects of our lives, our relationship, and our families.

Step Twelve is about taking the message of couple recovery to other couples. As in our individual programs, in the RCA fellowship we carried the message in many ways:

Sharing as a couple at recovery meetings.
In coupleship, serving as meeting secretary-couple, treasurer, or greeter. Or we took the responsibility of literature couple, refreshment couple, inter-group representative, liaison couple, temporary and full-time sponsor cou- ple.
Mentioning RCA to others at retreats or in our individual program meet- ings and making a schedule of meetings available.
Supporting the national convention through participation, voting as delegate, financial donation, or serving on the WSO Board.
Writing our couple stories and sharing these with others.

This step is meant for a lifetime. We get this program when we give it away. The results affect all of our relationships, and if we have children, we will be breaking the chains of addiction that have bound families for generations. We all learn from those couples who have gone before us. The message we carry is a liberating one. Working with newcomers can be a rewarding experience.

While we look forward to even more extensive program materials in the future, we hope that our experience, comments and suggestions above are helpful to you now. As always, just as in AA and other older fellowships, our experiences of how we work the Steps as couples will form the ongoing history of RCA. We eagerly anticipate your comments, suggestions, and questions.

Step One	Step Two	Step Three	Step Four	Step Five	Step Six
Step Seven	Step Eight	Step Nine	Step Ten	Step Eleven	Step Twelve

THE TWELVE 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. (Used with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.)