By Anonymous
Like many alcoholics and addicts, while John R. begun his restoration at age seventeen, he was once given an important e-book. first and foremost he used to be reluctant to struggle through the old school language and the tales approximately humans he did not imagine he may perhaps relate to. yet, through the years, he learned that find out how to get sober--and to stick sober--is to profit from those that have long past ahead of us. And so he learn Alcoholics Anonymous and took step one towards altering his existence.
Today, with greater than two decades of sobriety, John is a teenager chemical dependency counselor, displaying addicts how the center messages of AA are as robust and proper to them as they've been to the thousands of others who've gotten aid for habit through the years. With The 12 Steps Unplugged, he makes the Twelve Steps available to we all.
In this easy and infrequently humorous consultant, he translates the philosophies and tales of the large ebook in uncomplicated language that speaks to commonplace humans. John will...
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When Bill’s friends confronted his drinking, he argued with them. When my parents confronted me with bottles or bags they found, I lied and denied. We got the same result—we hurt those who cared about us. We put our drugs before our loved ones. Bill’s consequences mounted. He could no longer choose when he wanted to drink; he needed alcohol to function. I felt the same way. I couldn’t go to a party without using. I could barely walk down the school hallway without being high. I needed to drink or smoke dope to calm my emotional shakes.
Years later, I can say, it’s true. What will you have to say about it years from now? 2 THERE IS A SOLUTION Alcoholism is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it. So what’s the purpose of the Big Book? It’s simple: The Big Book provides solutions to what we couldn’t fix. It tells us how to recover from the seemingly hopeless condition of addiction. Our own efforts at fixing things didn’t work. Yet, this chapter promises that we’re capable of taking steps that will work.
This is common among all people in all cultures. Humans have tried to understand God since the beginning of time. Just as we need friends, the Big Book tells us we need faith in a Higher Power. No Thunder, No Lightning In chapter 4 we meet a minister’s son, an atheist who is lying in a hospital bed. Suddenly he realizes, Who am I to say there is no God? After all, his drinking had brought him to his knees. He felt an immediate conviction and God’s presence. That set him on the road to recovery.
