Category: The Recovered Word

Making Amends And Changing Lives…Step 9

Randolph Jason

Making Amends And Changing Lives…Step 9 by Randolph Jason for Gospel News Network We need to have 100% confidence in our Sponsor / accountability partner. We need to know they have traveled this road a great many times and that which we share will go no further – under any circumstance. Peoples lives are at stake. People can be harmed in ways that we never knew existed… and no, I am not being overly dramatic. People die everyday because of their addictive behaviors, we do not need to add to…

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Who Is An Addict?

Randolph Jason

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…

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Counseling the Alcoholic

Randolph Jason

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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Alcoholics Anonymous Makes Its Stand Here Pt 3

Randolph Jason

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…

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