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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... bad.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
2.
... bad.
BB p.76,
Into Action
When
ready, we say something like this: "My
Creator, I am now
willing
that you should have all of me,
good and
bad.
3.
... bad account
and start fresh with him?
BB p.145,
To Employers
Can you
charge this off as you would a
bad account and
start fresh with him?
4.
... bad actors.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
We
search for an
easier
way -- which usually
consists of the
general and
fairly painless admission that
when
drinking we were sometimes
bad actors.
5.
... bad and
people began to cut us ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Even before our
drinking got
bad and people
began to
cut us off,
nearly all of us
suffered the
feeling that
we didn't quite
belong.
6.
... bad as
ever.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Commencing to
drink
after a
period of
sobriety, we are in a
short
time as
bad as ever.
7.
... bad boy.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
At this
point he
firmly but
lovingly commences to
behave like a
partner
instead of like a
bad boy.
8.
... bad case
of D.T.'s, he's pretty foggy, ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
He's had a
bad case of
D.T.'s, he's
pretty foggy, and he's very
suspicious of
everybody.
9.
... bad case
of jitters.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
We
first saw
Fred about a
year ago in a
hospital where
he had
gone to
recover from
a
bad case of
jitters.
10.
... bad case
of jitters if you get ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
It may be
worth a
bad case of
jitters if you get a
full knowledge of your
condition.
11.
... bad effect
on him, too.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
When an
A.A. talks for
money, whether at a
meeting
or to a
single newcomer,
it can have a very
bad effect on him, too.
12.
... bad enough,
he thinks, to admit alcohol ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
It's
bad enough, he
thinks, to
admit alcohol has him down for
keeps.
13.
... bad for
him and bad for me.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I
realized that my
five-
dollar gift to the
slippee was an
ego-
feeding proposition,
bad for him and
bad for me.
14.
... bad for
me.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I
realized that my
five-
dollar gift to the
slippee was an
ego-
feeding proposition,
bad for him and
bad for me.
15.
... bad health,
and those who seldom play, ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
Everybody knows that
those in
bad health, and
those who
seldom play, do
not
laugh much.
16.
... bad-intentioned, that
no amount of patience will ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
17.
... bad motive
underneath a good one, permeates ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
18.
... bad one,
but I would not exchange ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
My
old manner of
life was by no
means a
bad one, but I would not
exchange its best moments for the
worst I have now.
19.
... bad repute
and hopelessness?
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
How can they
rise out of such
misery,
bad repute and
hopelessness?
20.
... bad result.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
21.
... bad taste.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
22.
... bad thing
in some cases.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Though it is
infinitely better that he have no
relapse at all, as has been
true with many of our
men, it is
by no
means a
bad thing in
some
cases.
23.
... bad time
of it in our world.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Humility, as a
word and as
an
ideal, has a very
bad time of it in our
world.
24.
... bad, to
the abnormal action of alcohol ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
But these
scrapes can
generally be
charged, no
matter how
bad, to the
abnormal action of
alcohol on his
mind.
25.
... bad, we
arouse anger in others.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
If our
tempers are
consistently bad, we
arouse anger in others.
26.
... bad, we
have frequently been abashed to ...
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
Because our
surface record hasn't
looked too
bad, we have
frequently
been
abashed to find that this is so
simply because we have
buried
these
selfsame defects
deep down in us under
thick
layers of
self-
justification.
27.
... bad, when
in fact we were mainly ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
28.
... bad, you
become a trembling recluse, wishing ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
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