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12 Suggested Steps to Recovery

12 Steps to Recovery
12 Suggested Steps to Recovery    

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

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Hello House — Long Island

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         HELLO HOUSE — LONG ISLAND

Hello House for Women,
located on Boston's Long Island,
is a 25 bed comprehensive treatment
experience for those attempting
to cope with drug addiction
and alcoholism.

Funded by the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health

We serve over 300 women per year with the mission of returning these women to the community sober, employed and committed to an ongoing recovery process.  With proper participation in the treatment components outlined by the Hello House for Women staff, the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction can be arrested. 

Hello House Ladies Doing Yoga

In April of 2006, Volunteers of America implemented a yoga program at Hello House, taught by a volunteer network of certified yoga instructors. Because of an overall increase in mental and physical wellness through greater awareness of one’s breath, alignment and mental focus, documented studies have shown that yoga provides potential for significant benefit in improving one’s quality of life.

Our goal is to promote change by helping our residents regain their vital center of energy that has been lost due to years of abuse, neglect and/or illness.  Using the lessons of yoga, we hope to continue to empower residents and staff with mindfulness, stability, patience and acceptance of oneself and the world.

Check out the YogaHOPE movie featuring the Hello House ladies. 

  
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"When you come here, you're broken, but they know how to fix you."

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