Emphasis Preaching Journal

One of the essentials in working a 12-step program, in Alcoholics Anonymous and other groups that use this approach to recovery, is the readiness to know oneself. To an outsider, the technique may seem brutal -- one must face and accept one's weaknesses without blinking, as it were. But the result is well worth it. Hopefully, by the time one has worked and is working all 12 steps, one is purged of the spiritual confusion that led to addiction in the first place. The same 12 steps are a good approach to the spiritual life under any circumstances, whether one is addicted to chemicals or not.