invitation to go some place much deeper, and I was catapulted on a profound spiritual, emotional and ultimately freeing, physical healing journey.

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invitation to go some place much deeper, and I was catapulted on a profound spiritual, emotional and ultimately freeing, physical healing journey.

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They are entirely in Spanish (Espanol) and are translations of the English set of worksheets.

<table class="contentpaneopen" style="width: 737px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;">These free worksheets are available for your use (thanks to Frank Q) in working the 12 step program. They are entirely in Spanish (Espanol) and are translations of the English set of worksheets. These worksheets can be viewed, edited and extended as you have need using any one of many available word processors. These worksheets are mostly a list of questions for each step where you can write out your own personal answers to the questions. This can give you some framework for working through each of the steps.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;">These worksheets are available in Microsoft Word format, Text Format (TXT) or PDF format. In line with the 12 traditions, these worksheets are free to download and use for your recovery in any way that you please as long as you do not sell them. The hope is that you will use them yourself and pass them on to others in need.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;">The links for downloading are listed below. <em><strong>You can download these worksheets by right clicking on an appropriate link below and then selecting "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As..." from the popup menu.</strong></em></p><br /><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><strong><em>All 12 Step Questions</em></strong> <br />These are questions for all of the steps in one big document.</p><ul><li><img alt="" src="http://www.12step.org/images/stories/steps/word.gif" /> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/docs/12pasos_questionario.doc" target="_blank">Questions in Word 2000 format</a> - Uses <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" target="_blank">Microsoft Word 2000</a> format</li><li><img alt="" src="http://www.12step.org/images/stories/steps/document.gif" /> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/docs/12pasos_questionario.rtf" target="_blank">Questions in Rich Text Format</a> - The Rich Text Format (RTF) files can be opened using the most text applications (e.g. WordPad) that is available under the "Accessories" menu of most versions of Microsoft Windows.</li><li><img alt="" src="http://www.12step.org/images/stories/steps/pdf3.gif" /> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/docs/12pasos_questionario.pdf" target="_blank">Questions in PDF Format</a> - The PDF format can be open for reading from the freely available PDF reader from <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.adobe.com/" target="_blank">Adobe</a> and can be written using Adobe's Acrobat writer.</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

They are entirely in Spanish (Espanol) and are translations of the English set of worksheets.

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<h3 style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; text-indent: 20px; color: #333333; background-image: url(http://www.12step.org/templates/rt_versatility4_j15/images/h3-icon1.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffb97c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; visibility: visible; background-position: 0px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><span style="color: #d76000;">About</span> the 12 Step Program</h3><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffb97c;">Twelve Step programs are well known for use in recovery from addictive or dysfunctional behaviors. The first 12 step program began with <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #d76000;" href="http://www.aa.org/" target="_blank">Alcoholics Anonymous</a> (A.A.) in the 1930s. The 12 Step approach has since grown to be the most widely used approach in dealing with not only alcoholism, but also drug abuse and various other addictive or dysfunctional behaviors.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffb97c;">The first book written to cover the 12 step program was titled "Alcoholics Anonymous", affectionately known as the <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #d76000;" href="http://www.12step.org/references/the-big-book.html">Big Book</a> by program members. Following the subsequent extensive growth of twelve step programs, numerous books and other media were created to cover the steps in more detail and for different addictive and dysfunctional behaviors. An extensive chronology and background about the history of A.A. has been put together at <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #d76000;" href="http://aa-history.com/">Dick B.'s website</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffb97c;">The twelve steps of the program are listed above in generic form. Other groups who have adopted the 12 steps to address their own particular addictive or dysfunctional behavior have<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #d76000;" href="http://www.12step.org/references/versions-of-the-12-steps.html">similar ideas with some variations</a>. These steps are meant to be worked sequentially as a process of getting rid of addictive behaviors and growing in freedom and happiness, as laid out in the <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #d76000;" href="http://www.12step.org/references/12-promises.html">Twelve Promises</a>. The general governing approach for A.A. groups was originally laid out in the <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #d76000;" href="http://www.12step.org/references/12-traditions.html">Twelve Traditions</a>, which remain the guiding principles still in use today.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffb97c;">There is a wealth of further information about 12 Step programs in the <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #d76000;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_steps" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, including a <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #d76000;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Twelve-Step_groups" target="_blank">list of 12 step groups</a>, or from the over 300 links in our <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #d76000;" href="http://www.12step.org/web-sites.html">directory of recovery related websites</a>.</p>

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The 12 Steps

<table class="contentpaneopen" style="width: 737px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><h1 style="padding-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 25px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; font-size: 24px; color: #003c63;">The 12 Steps</h1><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> </p><ul style="font-size: 14px;"><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-1.html"><strong>Step 1</strong></a> - <strong>We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-2.html"><strong>Step 2</strong></a> - <strong>Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-3.html"><strong>Step 3</strong></a> - <strong>Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-4.html"><strong>Step 4</strong></a> - <strong>Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-5.html"><strong>Step 5</strong></a> - <strong>Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-6.html"><strong>Step 6</strong></a> - <strong>Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-7.html"><strong>Step 7</strong></a> - <strong>Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-8.html"><strong>Step 8</strong></a> - <strong>Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-9.html"><strong>Step 9</strong></a> - <strong>Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-10.html"><strong>Step 10</strong></a> - <strong>Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-11.html"><strong>Step 11</strong></a> - <strong>Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out</strong></li><li style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 1em; list-style-type: none; text-indent: -4.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/Step-12.html"><strong>Step 12</strong></a> - <strong>Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs</strong></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> </p><br /><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;">This version of the 12 steps is an adaptation from the <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/references/versions-of-the-12-steps.html">original 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous</a> and is intended for general use with any addictive or dysfunctional behavior. The original steps of A.A. were <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #ff7601;" href="http://www.12step.org/references/the-big-book/big-book-chapter-5.html">suggested</a> as a program of recovery.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span class="article_separator" style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;"> </span></p>

The 12 Steps

The 12 Steps   Step 1  -  We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable Step 2  -  Came to belie...

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