From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... helped.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should
be helped.
2.
... helped.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Very soon, though, his assumed authority to run everything begins to be
shared with the first alcoholics he has helped.
3.
... helped?"
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
4.
... helped.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers
could be based only on the desire to help and be helped.
5.
... helped.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
6.
... helped.
BB p.87,
Into Action
7.
... helped at
times by extreme drunkenness, kept ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty
to my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes.
8.
... helped by
better understanding all around.
BB p.137,
To Employers
We think the business fabric is shot through with a situation
which might be helped by better understanding
all around.
9.
... helped by
such contacts.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
10.
... helped by
the late Dr. William D. ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly
helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.
11.
... helped double
our total membership in a ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
The news stories of Mr. Rockefeller's dinner for Alcoholics Anonymous helped double our total membership in a year's time.
12.
... helped him.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
You should not be offended if he wants to call it off, for he has
helped you more than you have
helped him.
13.
... helped him
to lose his fear of ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
These quiet disclosures helped him to
lose his fear of the alcoholic stigma, and spread the news of A.A.'s existence in his community.
14.
... helped many
of us.
BB p.142,
To Employers
15.
... helped much.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
16.
... helped other
men recover, and is a ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
17.
... helped such
large numbers of alcoholic men ...
BB xi,
Preface
Because this book has become the basic text for our Society and has
helped such large numbers of alcoholic men and women to recovery, there exists strong sentiment against any radical changes being made in it.
18.
... helped us.
BB p.139,
To Employers
19.
... helped us
to get down to our ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
20.
... helped you
more than you have helped ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
You should not be offended if he wants to call it off, for he has
helped you more than you have
helped him.
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