Forgiveness, Letting go, Resentment, Fear, and Love – Bob D Video
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Who Is An Addict?
Who Is An Addict? by Mrs. Marty Mann, Executive Director, National Council on Alcoholism, New York via Silkworth Click here for Part 1 >>> I am talking about all the old-fashioned concepts with which all of us who are adults grew up, whether we remember them or not: that alcoholics were primarily some kind of moral delinquent, moral leper (excepting that they are trying to get that “leper” out of our thinking, too, and call it by its proper name); that these were people who, if they chose, could be…
READ MORECounseling the Alcoholic
Counseling the Alcoholic by Mrs. Marty Mann, Executive Director, National Council on Alcoholism, New York via Silkworth GNN Note – It is my personal experience these techniques work with any addiction – any addiction whatsoever, not just alcoholics. / END The Blue Book, Vol. XVIII, 1966 I like the title of the talk assigned me, viz., “Counseling the Alcoholic.” I am not a counselor. My experience in working directly with alcoholics came through membership in AA. I have the honor of being the first woman who made it in AA,…
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READ MOREFamilies in Recovery: Explaining Addiction (Video)
Families in Recovery: Explaining Addiction Video GNN Note – It’s not just one person…it’s everybody. / END
READ MOREAlcoholics Anonymous Makes Its Stand Here Pt 3
Alcoholics Anonymous Makes Its Stand Here Pt 3 By ELRICK B. DAVIS via Silkworth In a previous installment, Mr. Davis outlined the plan of Alcoholics Reprinted from the October 23, 1939, Cleveland Plain Dealer Anonymous, an organization of former drinkers who have found a solution to liquor in association for mutual aid. This is the second of a series. Religion There is no blinking the fact that Alcoholics Anonymous, the amazing society of ex-drunks who have cured each other of an incurable disease, is religious. Its members have cured each…
READ MOREHaving an unmanageable life, Steps 2 and 3 – Bob D (Video)
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READ MOREPowerless over alcohol and Step 1 of Alcoholism Recovery – Bob D. (Video)
Powerless over alcohol and Step 1 of Alcoholism Recovery – Bob D. Video from Odomtology
READ MOREIntervention: Nicholette’s Battle & Recovery from Drinking and Drug Addiction (Video)
Intervention: Nicholette’s Battle & Recovery from Drinking and Drug Addiction Video
READ MOREHelp From Sufferings Alcoholics…
Help From Sufferings Alcoholics… from Silkworth Part 1 >>> Elrick B. Davis for The Cleveland Plain Dealer Cured The basic point about Alcoholics Anonymous is that it is a fellowship of “cured” alcoholics. And that both old-line medicine and modern psychiatry had agreed on the one point that no alcoholic could be cured. Repeat the astounding fact: These are cured. They have cured each other. They have done it by adopting, with each other’s aid, what they call “a spiritual way of life.” “Incurable” alcoholism is not a moral vice.…
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