A Vision For You - pp. Personal Stories Appendices i. The A. Tradition - pp. Spiritual Experience - pp. The Medical View On A. The Lasker Award - pp. The Religious View on A. How to Get in Touch With A. Twelve Concepts Short Form - pp. Big Book in ASL. A brief overview of the four editions of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
How the content outlining A. For more information on A. The original foreword. Written in A brief history of Alcoholics Anonymous from , including its growth in membership as well as its spread across the U. Introduces the Twelve Traditions for the first time. Gratitude for "friends of A. Notes that A. William D. Silkworth, who treated Bill W.
Co-founder Bill W. Highlights a pathway to recovery for alcoholics who are atheist and agnostic while addressing the resistance some alcoholics may feel toward spirituality. Presents the Twelve Steps — A. Taking Steps Five through Eleven can help maintain not only physical sobriety but also personal transformation.
This chapter describes how these Steps can lead to "a new freedom and a new happiness. The transmission of A. As discussed in this chapter, the Twelfth Step encapsulates how this can happen. An alcoholic marriage can be fraught with distrust, frustration, loneliness and fear. This chapter, focused on the wives of alcoholics, explores some solutions. Alcoholism affects not just the alcoholic but the entire family. This chapter offers hope and counsel to family members when the alcoholic is beginning to recover through Alcoholics Anonymous.
Alcoholic employees can be disruptive to an organization. This chapter, directed to employers, outlines how problem drinkers in the workplace can be approached withA.
Bob chronicles his many years as an active alcoholic and how meeting Bill W. Appendix I - The A. The Twelve Traditions are a set of principles by which Alcoholics Anonymous functions most effectively. We hope you can find what you need here. We always effort to show a picture with high resolution or with perfect images. Finally all pictures we've been displayed in this website will inspire you all. Thank you for visiting. We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol - 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 him.
Moreover, they can find a power greater than themselves quickly and be restored to sanity FAST by taking this very simple program. They had conversion experiences, discovered a new way of living without alcohol or drugs and carried this message of hope to others. Ruth R. In the process, the period for taking the Steps was expanded and modified from 4 weeks to somewhere in between 12 and 16 weeks. The Fourth Step inventory was modified and became a much more laborious and detailed procedure.
What was originally conceived as a very simple program, which took a few hours to complete, evolved into a complicated and confusing undertaking requiring several months. We feel that unless a man, after a course of instruction and an intelligent presentation of the case for the AA life, has accepted it without any reservation he should not be included in group membership. Our format quotes extensively from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition , our basic text for recovery.
Our notes, commentary, and gender-neutral changes are formatted in italics.
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