From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CONFIDENT occurs
6 times
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1.
... confident.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
The
speaker's
voice grew more
confident.
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
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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