Acronyms and 12-Step Jargon & Steps

[If Not For Grace]

Commonly used list of Acronyms used in most 12 Step Programs:
(not submitted as an all inclusive list-in fact please add any you know of that I have omitted or may be unaware of) I will edit as necessary when I can-Thanks.

ACTION - Any Change To Improve Our Nature
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ANGER= A Negative Grudge Endangers Recovery
CTC= Courage to Change or C2C
EGO = Edging God Out
ESH = Experience, Strength and Hope
FAITH = Finding Answers In The Heart
FEAR = Face Everything And Recover/Future Events Aren't Real/False Evidence Appearing Real/Forgetting Everything's All Right / Faith Erases all Reservations / Forget Everything and Run.
FINE = F#@%ed -Up, Insecure, Neurotic, Evasive
FLY= First Love Yourself
GIFTS = Getting It From The Steps
GOD = Good Orderly Direction
GUIDANCE = God U & I Dance
HALT= Hungry-Anxious/Angry-Lonely-Tired/Honestly-Actively-Lovingly-Tolerant
JADE= I don't have to Justify, Argue, Defend, or Explain to anyone
HOW = Honesty, Openness, and Willingness
MYOB = Mind Your Own Business
ODAT = Opportunity, Desire, Ability, Time and One Day At A Time
PUSH = Pray Until Something Happens
QTIP = Quit Taking It Personally
SLIP = Serenity Loses It's Priority
TEAM = Together Empowering Al-Anon Members
THINK = Thoughtful Honest Intelligent Necessary Kind/Thank Heaven I Know Gifts
TRUST = TRY RELYING UPON STEP THREE
WAIT = Why Am I Talking
YANA = You Are Not Alone

 

[If Not For Grace]

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 others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

 

[If Not For Grace]

Please feel free to add others

 

[jaxis]

SOS share our strength , stuck on sobriety, stuck on stupid

 

[Gnostic_Christian]

Always heard FINE was Effed up, Insecure, Neurotic, EMOTIONAL but Evasive works too.

GOD: Group Of Drunks (for newcomers, athiests/agnostics)

YET: You're Elegible Too