Informally known as "The Big Book" (with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a power higher than themselves seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding take a moral inventory with care to include resentments list and become ready to remove character defects list and make amends to those harmed, and thusly, try to help other alcoholics recover. To promote the fellowship, Wilson and other members wrote the initially-titled book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism, from which AA drew its name. AA lacks formal organization, shuns publicity, is altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limits AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level. AA membership spreads across diverse cultures holding different beliefs and values. In 1946, AA's Twelve Traditions were created in order to help the movement stabilize and grow.ĪA is regarded as a proponent of the disease theory of alcoholism. Bob developed the Twelve Step program of spiritual and character development. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio, to help alcoholics stay sober and help others achieve sobriety.
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Learning how to be grateful for life's hard-hitting lessons is the ultimate protection against our destructiveness.Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid movement founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Our capacity to engage in creative action during times of adversity is key to our progress. We are bound to take actions that undermine our progress and hurt others. We will make mistakes and may experience massive failures beyond our control. The creative actions we take to stay engaged in our recovery, give of ourselves in service, and nurture a relationship with our Higher Power will sustain our spirits even as we thrive in other ways. We may not relapse, but we risk destroying some of the good we've built in our time clean. That neglect can lead us down a path of destruction. It's important to note that some of us use our creativity to build only our outsides-getting our looks back, doing our time and being released, finishing the degree, or retiring in style- but deny our spiritual needs. It includes all the actions we take to build our self-esteem, strengthen our relationships, and bolster our integrity. Most simply, creative action is everything we do to reconstruct our lives and elevate our communities. Because we're alive and we're clean, we have the opportunity to rebuild.
In many cases, our destructiveness resulted in losing our freedom.Īs melodramatic as it may sound, we can rise from the rubble, fumes, and bloodshed of our self-destruction! We destroyed a lot, but we didn't destroy everything. We self- destructed, harming our bodies, our minds, and our spirits. We demolished relationships, careers, and property. In our active addiction, instead of building up our lives, we knocked them down. One way for us to examine the power of creative action is to take a clear look at its spiritual polar opposite: destruction.
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