1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction to the JW Organization— and it's man-made rules that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity and that this Higher Power was Jehovah/God and NOT the imperect body of men called "The Organization."
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
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 past wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed in our misguilded loyality to "The Organization", 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 God, praying only for knowledge of God'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 follow XJWs, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
