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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HUMILIATING occurs
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1.
... humiliating.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
First of all, we had to
admit that we had many of these
defects, even though such
disclosures were
painful and
humiliating.
2.
... humiliating and
dreaded meetings that still remain ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
The
temptation to
skip
the more
humiliating and
dreaded meetings that
still
remain may be
great.
3.
... humiliating experience,
it didn't necessarily mean that ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
But while this was a
humiliating experience, it didn't
necessarily mean that we
had
yet acquired much
actual humility.
4.
... humiliating experience,
plus the knowledge he had ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
He was
positive that this
humiliating experience,
plus the
knowledge he had
acquired, would
keep him
sober the
rest of his
life.
5.
... humiliating memories,
we tell ourselves, ought not ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Certain distressing
or
humiliating memories,
we tell ourselves, ought not be
shared with anyone.
6.
... humiliating, shameful
or tragic.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Now and then the
family will be
plagued by
spectres from
the
past, for the
drinking
career of almost every
alcoholic has been
marked
by
escapades,
funny,
humiliating,
shameful or
tragic.
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