The Twelve Steps of IT-ANON (Adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous)
1) We admitted we were powerless over addiction – 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 the Higher Power of our understanding.
4) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5) Admitted to our Higher Power, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6) Were entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove all these defects of character.
7) Humbly asked our Higher Power 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 the Higher Power of our understanding, praying only for knowledge of our Higher Power’s 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.
The 12 Traditions of IT-ANON (Adapted from AA/ Al-Anon)
The Traditions summarize the IT-Anon principles that have proven to help IT-Anon groups function effectively.
1) Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities.12 Traditions of IT-Anon
2) Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity.
3) For our group purpose there is but one authority—a loving Higher Power as expressed in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants—they do not govern.
4) The relatives of IT addicts, when gathered together for mutual aid, may call themselves an IT-Anon Group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of IT addiction in a relative or friend.
5) Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting another group, IT-Anon, or ITAA as a whole.
6) Each IT-Anon Family Group has but one purpose: to help families of IT addicts. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of ITAA ourselves, by encouraging and understanding our IT addict relatives, and by welcoming and giving comfort to families of IT addicts.
7) Our IT-Anon Groups ought never endorse, finance or lend our name to any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim. Although a separate entity, we should always co-operate with ITAA.
8) Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
9) IT-Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
10) Our groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
11) The IT-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
12) Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, and TV. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all ITAA and IT-Anon members.
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