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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 ...
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 collection of personal stories, in which alcoholics tell their stories of addiction and recovery.
Twelve-step methods have been adapted to address a wide range of alcoholism, substance abuse, and dependency problems. Over 200 mutual aid organizations—often known as fellowships—with a worldwide membership of millions have adopted and adapted AA’s 12 Steps and 12 Traditions for recovery.
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 ...
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 ...
The victorious man in the day of crisis is the man who has the serenity to accept what he cannot help and the courage to change what must be altered. [ 2 ] Drawing on this, Wygal published a prayer in the March 1933 edition of YWCA periodical The Woman's Press , [ 3 ] which was soon shared with a broader audience on the front page of the Santa ...
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.
Sherkat also found that 16% of the Jewish people surveyed agreed with the statement about a 'higher power', while 13.2% of liberal Protestants and 10.6% of Episcopalians also agreed with it. [ 11 ] An empirically based recovery framework likened faith in a higher power to motivation for personal growth as described by Abraham Maslow and Carl ...