Did you suffer any illnesses or maladies, either physical or mental, because of your addiction? What were they? How did you deal with them?.How did you try to hide your addictive behavior from other people? Did it work?.How did your addiction affect your finances? How did you rationalize your spending? Did you have to hide the damage from other people?.What is the most regrettable outcome of your addiction?.Were there any feelings that you to bouts of engagement in addictive behavior? Were you trying to mask them? How did your behavior alter or influence those feelings?.Does your addiction isolate you from other people? Is it an internal feeling of isolation, or have the people in your life noticed it too?.Did your addiction damage your most important personal relations? How did it do so?.List all the types of behavior of which your addiction consisted.How did you feel when you had not engaged in an addictive behavior for a while?.How did you discover your addiction? Why did you enjoy it initially?.But keep in mind that we are not surveying the wreckage in our lives to feel self-pity. These questions will seem dour, and they are. Therefore, our questions at this stage will focus on how we were defeated, by what our lives look like as a result. That our attempts to function have failed and that addiction is the cause of this outcome. Al-Anon, NA, CoDa and more.įocus of step 1: Step one is built around the realization that our addiction has defeated us. This worksheet is compatible with working the steps in almost all 12 step programs including AA. Instead, it is meant to complement the traditional elements and assist you as you improve your life by working the steps. Answering these questions does not replace the work you do with your sponsor, attending meetings, using official literature, and daily prayer and meditation. Instead, we advise that you show the questions to your sponsor and decide together if they are appropriate for you. This is not meant as a comprehensive source of questions relevant to your work on the 12 steps of AA or any other 12-step program. Answering these questions as you reach the appropriate step, will help you along that process. If you work the steps, listen to your sponsor, and take your recovery seriously, your life will improve immeasurably. It is for this reason that focused questions are a crucial element in the equation. This requires a great deal of introspection and soul searching. The 12-steps are designed to help us better understand where our addiction stems from and what we can do about it. Each step requires exhaustive mental work alongside practical steps. The process is called “working the steps” for a reason.
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