From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... confident.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
2.
... confident in
our new way of life ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to
convince those about us
that we are indeed changing for the better, it
is usually safe to talk in complete frankness with those who
have been seriously affected, even those who may be only a little
or not at all aware of what we have done to them.
3.
... confident it
could not happen to me ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I rather appreciated
your ideas about the subtle
insanity which precedes the first drink, but I was confident it
could not happen to me after what I had learned.
4.
... confident of
this had we become that ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."
5.
... confident, that
it would be only a ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I felt I had every right to be self-confident, that it would be only a matter of exercising my
will power and keeping on guard.
6.
... confident that
we can maintain our sobriety.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain
our sobriety.
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