From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... damaging.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic
to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging.
2.
... damaging.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
3.
... damaging conduct.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
For most of us, self-justification was the maker of excuses; excuses, of course, for drinking, and for all kinds
of crazy and damaging conduct.
4.
... damaging emotional
conflicts persist below the level ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness.
5.
... damaging fact
that millions of the 'good ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
How we loved to shout the
damaging fact that millions of the 'good men of religion' were still killing one another off in the name of God.
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