From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... body.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Doubtless you are curious to discover how
and why, in the face of expert opinion to the contrary, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind and body.
2.
... body.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
3.
... body.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Though the family has no religious connections, they may wish
to make contact with or take membership in a religious body.
4.
... body.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
5.
... body and
mind which accompany it.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
6.
... body are
marvelous mechanisms, for mine endured ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
7.
... body badly
burned by alcohol does not ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not
often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.
8.
... body can
fail its purpose for lack ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
9.
... body of
an alcoholic and warps his ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The man in the bed was told of the acute poisoning from which he suffered, how it deteriorates the body of
an alcoholic and warps
his mind.
10.
... body of
the alcoholic is quite as ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
In this statement he confirms what we who have suffered alcoholic torture must believe -- that the body of
the alcoholic is quite
as abnormal as his mind.
11.
... body of
the effects of alcohol.
BB p.143,
To Employers
12.
... body politic,
which swell into a loud ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Still more important, murmurs are heard in the body politic, which swell into a
loud cry: "Do these oldtimers think they can run this group forever?
13.
... body suffers.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
14.
... body that
insured we would ultimately destroy ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The tyrant alcohol wielded a double-edged sword over us: first we were smitten by an insane urge that condemned us to go on drinking, and then by an
allergy of the body that insured we would ultimately destroy ourselves in the process.
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