Our program requires that we stop viewing pornography, but how do we do that? These steps are suggested for a program of recovery from our addiction to pornography:
- We admitted we were powerless over pornography, that our lives had become unmanageable
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
- Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
- 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
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to other pornography addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
These steps are the basis for identifying our powerlessness over our addiction to pornography and working the program of recovery. The only relief we have found is to surrender our attempts to control our addiction and to seek a conscious contact with a power greater than ourselves.
As we work the program of recovery, follow the directions of those who sponsor us, connect with the fellowship, and be of service, we feel the obsession release. We are spiritually guided towards a healthier life that includes love, intimacy, and trust.
One day at a time, sometimes moment to moment, we surrender our attempts to control our addiction and seek help from a power greater than ourselves.
We no longer fear rejection. We no longer fear intimacy. We no longer utilize pornography to numb our feelings and escape reality.
We return to sanity with the aid of a power greater than ourselves through the 12 steps of PAA.