From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... emotional and
mental disorders, but many of ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them
do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.
2.
... emotional, and
physical.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at
some time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.
3.
... emotional appeal
seldom suffices.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
4.
... emotional balance.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
5.
... emotional balance,
and live to good purpose ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to good purpose under all conditions?
6.
... emotional binges
than A.A.'s safe at home ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
7.
... emotional booby
traps baited with pride and ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
8.
... emotional complications
-- even your crimes -- we still ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
No matter who you are, no matter how low you've gone, no matter how grave your emotional complications -- even
your crimes -- we still
can't deny you A.A.
9.
... emotional conflicts
persist below the level of ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging
emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness.
10.
... emotional deformities
are, we can move toward ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
11.
... emotional dependence
upon a parent.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
12.
... emotional displacements
and rearrangements.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
13.
... emotional disturbance
happens to be great, we ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
If at these points our emotional disturbance happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to
us in our reading or meditation.
14.
... emotional disturbance
or indecision, we can pause, ...
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause,
ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and
wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."
15.
... emotional "dry
benders" often led straight to ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
16.
... emotional gusts
than those A.A.'s bold enough ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
No individuals have been
more buffeted by such emotional gusts than those A.A.'s bold enough to accept employment with outside
agencies dealing with
the alcohol problem.
17.
... emotional handicap
in either will be likely ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
They need to be as sure as possible that no deep-lying emotional handicap in either will be likely to rise up under later pressures to cripple them.
18.
... emotional hangover,
the direct result of yesterday's ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and
sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.
19.
... emotional harm
we have done ourselves has.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.
20.
... emotional independence
is in question, how differently ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
21.
... emotional insecurity
are worry, anger, self-pity, and ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
22.
... emotional jag
indefinitely.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Anger, that occasional
luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely.
23.
... emotional levels
is a fact and not ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that
their compatibility at spiritual, mental, and
emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.
24.
... emotional natures,
we were a prey to ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we
had a feeling of uselessness, we were full
of fear, we were unhappy,
we couldn't seem to be of real
help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
25.
... emotional, or
spiritual damage to people.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people.
26.
... emotional pain,"
and we pray for these ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
We say to ourselves, "This
one ought to be cured of his fatal malady," or "That one ought to be relieved of his
emotional pain," and we pray for these specific things.
27.
... emotional problem
can be seen as a ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
28.
... emotional rearrangement
within you.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
29.
... emotional security.
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Also of importance for
most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial
and emotional security.
30.
... emotional security
and financial security -- commence to ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes
and actions toward security -- emotional security and financial
security -- commence
to change profoundly.
31.
... emotional security,
and for an important place ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Our desires for sex, for material and emotional security, and for an important place in society often tyrannize us.
32.
... emotional security,
and for companionship -- are perfectly ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
33.
... emotional security
and peace of mind.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
If we lie or cheat, we deprive others not only of
their worldly goods, but
of their emotional security and peace of mind.
34.
... emotional security
and wealth, for personal prestige ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our desires for emotional
security and wealth, for
personal prestige and
power, for romance, and
for family satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered and redirected.
35.
... emotional security
as well as his standing ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
In such a case, this imperious urge can destroy his chances for material and emotional security as well as his standing in the community.
36.
... emotional security
by being dominating or dependent ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
37.
... emotional security,
for our own way, had ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
Our demand for emotional security, for our own way, had constantly thrown us into unworkable
relations with other people.
38.
... emotional sobriety.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our
daily lives so that we and
those about us may find emotional sobriety.
39.
... emotional stability
to be God Himself.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
When we developed still
more, we discovered the
best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself.
40.
... emotional sterility
and of having lost the ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
If we do not do so, we shall stand convicted of emotional sterility and of
having lost the faith that moves mountains, without which medicine can
do little.
41.
... emotional turmoil
before serenity.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
How heartily we A.A.'s can
agree with him, for we know
that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.
42.
... emotional twists
that have so often stemmed ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Our main problem is not how
we are to stay married; it
is how to be more happily
married by eliminating the severe
emotional twists that have
so often stemmed from alcoholism.
43.
... emotional upset.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
44.
... emotional wounds,
some old, some perhaps forgotten, ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still
painfully festering,
will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery.
45.
... emotional wringer.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
We won't be biased or scared off by that fact, because although he was
not an alcoholic he did, like us, go through the emotional wringer.
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