From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BREAKING occurs
4 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... breaking anonymity.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
The
violation in these
instances was not
professionalism at all; it was
breaking anonymity.
2.
... breaking anonymity at the public level.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
At one
point, about a
hundred of our
Society were
breaking anonymity at the
public level.
3.
... breaking down the patient's inner resistance so ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
I now
conceive the
psychiatrist's
job to be
the
task of
breaking down the
patient's
inner resistance so that which is
inside him will
flower, as
under the
activity of the
A.A. program."
4.
... breaking up into warring fragments.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Everywhere he sees people
filled with
anger and
fear,
society breaking up into
warring fragments.
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