the eight hundred pound elephant that keeps us from finding peace joy and serenity. Just a twist of the 12 Steps to orient them towards the eight hundred pound elephant.

1. We admitted we were powerless over our relationships—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 .
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make  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 all people, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.