From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ISOLATION occurs
5 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... isolation from
our fellows and from God.
12&12 p.82,
Step Eight
It is the
beginning of the
end of
isolation from our
fellows and from
God.
2.
... isolation had
become complete, it caused us ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
But when
self-will had
driven everybody away and
our
isolation had
become complete, it
caused us to
play the
big shot in
cheap barrooms and then
fare forth alone on the
street to
depend upon the
charity
of
passersby.
3.
... isolation problem
had been solved.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
We
thought the
isolation problem had been
solved.
4.
... isolation through
the open and honest sharing ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
This
feeling of being at one with
God and
man, this
emerging from
isolation
through the
open and
honest
sharing of our
terrible
burden of
guilt, brings us
to a
resting place where we may
prepare ourselves for the
following Steps toward a
full and
meaningful sobriety.
5.
... isolation we've
always had.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
For one thing, we shall get
rid of that
terrible sense of
isolation we've always had.
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