These 12 steps are adapted from those of Alcoholics Anonymous. We encourage you to participate in any support group that uses them. 

A wide variety of groups exist based on either dealing directly with an addiction (alcohol, weed, narcotics, porn, gambling), or having codepency on others, or being affected by the problematic behaviors of others.

Links are provided for your convenience; inCAPABLES.org has no relationship with these groups. We are happy to try to introduce people in common struggles if you use our Councils of Peers form below.



1. Admitted to being adudass over at least one thing which has made my own life, and maybe that of others, unmanageable or a mess.

2. Came to believe that some Power or Being greater than myself could restore me to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of that higher Power or Being, however I perceive them in my life.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of my dudish as well as positive ways. Realized I still have a great deal of good to offer despite my struggles and weaknesses.

5. Admitted to my Higher Power, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have my Higher Power remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked my Higher Power to remove my shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons I 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 dialog and meditation to improve my conscious contact with my Higher Power as perceived by me, asking only for knowledge of my best path and the power to carry it out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all my affairs.