Alcoholics are experts in coming up with sociably acceptable answers for unacceptable behavior.
A fellow needed to spend some time at the local drying-out clinic where this drunk been sent for recuperation again. Upon his return, a friend asked him how it had been there. "Terrible!" was the reply. "For three weeks, I lived on nothing but food."
CHAPTER FIVE
Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, with their own histories of treatment, early found that even drinking alcoholics tended to be fascinated with their sobriety, that an invariable question inevitably came: "How does it work?" Aptly, then, Wilson chose to title the fifth chapter, of the Big Book, the one setting forth the steps of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, "How It Works." But this chapter, reflecting all that Bill and Dr. Bob had learned, offered not analysis but witness--the witness of their experience. The structure and style of this whole chapter in no way examined origin or causation--of alcoholism or its cure. The simple format was "This is what we did," a sharing of experience, drinking and sober.
Alcoholics are experts in coming up with sociably acceptable answers for unacceptable behavior. A fellow needed to spend some time at the local drying-out...
Alcoholics are experts in coming up with sociably acceptable answers for unacceptable behavior. A fellow needed to spend some time at the local drying-out...
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A fellow who had been in A.A. long enough to know that the first drink gets us drunk. He tried to get around that by ordering two drinks at once and pushing...
A fellow who had been in A.A. long enough to know that the first drink gets us drunk. He tried to get around that by ordering two drinks at once and pushing...
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Almost as effective as working one-to-one is working with one's A.A. group or the larger organization in any of the multiple service opportunities. SPONSORSHIP...
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Alcoholism is a threefold illness, mental, physical and spiritual. STEP 3 AND STEP 11 In Step 3: We give up our directions. We turn over to Him, our will and...
... *Archie: I don't know who you are or how you got my email address. While I do subscribe to daily reflections of one sort or another I don't recall ...
Alcoholism is not contagious, but recovery is. STEP PRAYERS Step 1: God, here I am and here are my troubles. I've made a mess of things and can't do anything...
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