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the 12-step programme
Our dedicated team, many of whom have lived experience with addiction and recovery, provides 24/7 support to adult males with a history of substance misuse. Elisha House offers a safe and supportive space with a strong recovery-focused atmosphere. We believe in the power of connection, community, and meaningful activities to inspire change. Our program includes structured activities incorporating the 12-Step Programme, the Five Ways to Wellbeing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to foster lasting behaviour change.
The 12-Step Program is a framework originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to help individuals overcome addiction, and it has since been adapted for various forms of recovery. It provides a structured path to achieve and maintain sobriety while fostering personal growth, accountability, and spiritual connection. Here is a summary of the key steps:
1. Admit Powerlessness
Acknowledge that you are powerless over your addiction and that your life has become unmanageable.
2. Believe in a Higher Power
Come to believe that a power greater than yourself can restore you to sanity. This “higher power” can be spiritual, religious, or as defined by the individual.
3. Turn Over Control
Decide to turn your will and life over to the care of this higher power as you understand it.
4. Take a Personal Inventory
Conduct a fearless and honest self-assessment to identify personal flaws, patterns, and behaviours contributing to your addiction.
5. Admit Wrongs
Admit to yourself, your higher power, and another person the exact nature of your wrongs.
6. Be Ready for Change
Be entirely ready to have your higher power remove your character defects.
7. Humbly Ask for Help
Ask your higher power to remove your shortcomings.
8. Make Amends List
Make a list of all the people you have harmed and become willing to make amends to them.
9. Make Direct Amends
Make amends to those you have harmed, except when doing so would cause further harm to them or others.
10. Continue Personal Inventory
Regularly take a personal inventory and promptly admit when you are wrong.
11. Seek Spiritual Growth
Seek through prayer, meditation, or other practices to improve your connection with your higher power and gain insight into your recovery.
12. Help Others
Carry the message to others struggling with addiction and practice these principles in all aspects of your life.