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What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
This is the full meaning of the acronym AA.
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What is "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable."
Step 1 of Alcoholics Anonymous
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What is “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
Step 2 of Alcoholics Anonymous
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What is “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”
Step 3 of Alcoholics Anonymous
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What is “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”
Step 4 of Alcoholics Anonymous
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Who are Bill W. and Dr. Bob S.?
The founding fathers of AA
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What is honesty?
The primary spiritual principle behind Step 1
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What is hope? Step 2 is about finding faith in some higher power, and the accompanying principle of hope means that you should never give up that faith, even when you suffer a setback.
The primary spiritual principle behind Step 2
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What is faith and surrender?
The primary spiritual principle behind Step 3
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What is courage?
The primary spiritual principle behind Step 4
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What are the 4 Absolutes?
These 4 virtues were the precursor to the 12 Steps: honesty, unselfishness, purity, and love.
These were known as. . . |
What is identifying the problem?
The main work of Step 1
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What is the insanity of our disease?
The inability to recognize true from false when I am in my disease
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What are conflicting feelings about God and religion?
The main reason most people struggle with Step 3.
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What is you take responsibility for your past and current behavior. You acknowledge things that are embarrassing, painful, or difficult that are the root of your addiction. AA participants write their fearless moral inventory while examining their feelings of fear, anger, resentment, pride, shame, and pity.
The main reason people struggle with Step 4
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What are the basics of Alcoholics Anonymous?
Stop drinking/ drugging; go to meetings; get a sponsor; work the steps; help another alcoholic. These are known as. . .
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What is my internal condition and alcohol/ drugs?
The problem and the solution we have chosen
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What is mental obsession?
My own voice and thoughts that can not distinguish between true and false
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What is a decision? We DECIDE to stop playing God in our own lives and we DECIDE to do the work of the other steps.
Step 3 is primarily about a decision or about work.
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What are resentments, fears, and harms?
The three things we write down in Step 4
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What is the primary purpose of AA?
To stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.
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What are the concepts of powerlessness and unmanageability?
The two main parts of Step 1
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What is your Higher Power?
Something bigger than just one alcoholic that can help restore us to sanity
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What is the Third Step Prayer?
A way to practice daily remembering that I am not God and my internal condition calls my thoughts and decisions into question.
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What is discovering our character defects?
The main goal of writing all resentments, fears, and harms in Step 4
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