Recovery
We are born pretty near perfect.
As we experience life, some of the things in that life affect us. Greatly.
We have a ski accident - there is a broken leg and surgery. We need to recover from the fall and break.
We fall in love with someone who ends up doing things to hurt us, our family, our sanctuary of a home - we have resentments or other negative feelings, often buried pretty deeply - we may choose to "get over" or "recover" from that.
That's how I see it.
12-Steps
I sometimes say to people when I'm 'witnessing', is:
if I said that I wanted to live a life of integrity, in which I love and am grateful to my Creator, I am truthful, I revere the more spiritual aspects of living, I will try and not be an ego-maniac and try to believe that some force or something is out there that is "wiser" than I am, that when I hurt people I apologize and try and make things right, and I have faith that life will unfold in just the right way for me....
who wouldn't think it's a pretty good idea to try and subscribe to those things?