Addiction Recovery Program

Counseling, guidance, related services
Listen to actual 12-step Addiction Recovery Program meetings and hear members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who have struggled with addictions find hope and recovery through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. The Addiction Recovery Guide is available as a PDF (24 languages) or mp3. More information is available on arp.lds.org.

Aug 13, 2024

Step 12: Service

Key Principle: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, share this message with others and practice these principles in all you do.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.

Aug 9, 2024

Step 11: Personal Revelation

Key Principle: Seek through prayer and meditation to know the Lord’s will and to have the power to carry it out.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.

May 16, 2024

Step 10: Daily Accountability

Key Principle: Continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong, promptly admit it.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.

Aug 13, 2024

Step 9: Restitution and Reconciliation

Key Principle: Wherever possible, make a direct restitution to all persons you have harmed.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.

Aug 13, 2024

Step 8: Seeking Forgiveness

Key Principle: Make a written list of all persons you have harmed and become willing to make restitution to them.
Participants in an addiction recovery program.

Aug 12, 2024

Step 7: Humility

Key Principle: Humbly ask Heavenly Father to remove your shortcomings.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.

Dec 14, 2022

Step 6: Change of Heart

Key Principle: Become entirely ready to have God remove all your character weaknesses.
A man with his arm around a woman.  They are smling.

Aug 13, 2024

Step 5: Confession

Key Principle: Admit to yourself, to your Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, to proper priesthood authority, and to another person, the exact nature of your wrongs.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.

Aug 12, 2024

Step 4: Truth

Key Principle: Make a searching and fearless written moral inventory of yourself.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.

Aug 13, 2024

Step 3: Trust in God

Key Principle: Decide to turn your will and your life over to the care of God the Eternal Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.

Aug 13, 2024

Step 2: Hope

Key Principle: Come to believe that the power of God can restore you to complete spiritual health.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.

Aug 13, 2024

Step 1: Honesty

Key Principle: Admit that you, of yourself, are powerless to overcome your addictions and that your life has become unmanageable.Listen to members convey their feelings as they learn to believe in the love and mercy of God the Eternal Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
Men and women meeting together in an addiction recovery program.