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How to use the twelve steps is explained using examples and anecdotes. Some chapters target a specific audience. One chapter is devoted to agnostics, and another is named "To Wives" (most of the first AA members were men), and still another is for employers. The second part of the book (whose content varies from edition to edition) is a ...
Though AA usually avoids the term disease [citation needed], 1973 conference-approved literature said "we had the disease of alcoholism", [137] while Living Sober, published in 1975, contains several references to alcoholism as a disease, [138]: 23, 32, 40 including a chapter urging the reader to "Remember that alcoholism is an incurable ...
Genuflection on one knee, during a Catholic Mass. Genuflection or genuflexion is the act of bending a knee to the ground, as distinguished from kneeling which more strictly involves both knees.
Morgan R., recently released from an asylum, contacted his friend Gabriel Heatter, host of the popular radio program We the People, to promote his newly found recovery through AA. The interview was considered vital to the success of AA and its book sales, so to ensure that Morgan stayed sober for the broadcast, members of AA kept him locked in ...
Kneeling with only one knee, and not both, is called genuflection. Kneeling is a primate behavior used to convey deference by making the figure that is kneeling appear smaller than the other. [2] Primates themselves establish a dominance hierarchy (or "pecking order") which is important to the survival and behavior of the group. [3]
After reciting his pledge, William kissed his father's cheek before walking back to his place in the pew, joining his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5.
We cannot give AA membership to non-alcoholic narcotics-addicts. But like anyone else, they should be able to attend certain open AA meetings, provided, of course, that the groups themselves are willing. AA members who are so inclined should be encouraged to band together in groups to deal with sedative and drug problems.
OPINION: Just because WNBA star Brittney Griner is now standing up for the national anthem doesn't mean she isn't still standing up for social justice. The post Brittney Griner is free to sit out ...