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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PAINFUL occurs
8 times
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1.
... painful.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For us, the
process of
gaining a new
perspective was
unbelievably painful.
2.
... painful.
BB p.121,
To Wives
But what we have
related is
based upon
experience,
some of it
painful.
3.
... painful and 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.
4.
... painful ego-puncturing.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
5.
... painful experience, this prayer was his expression ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
And as he
came out the other
side of that
painful experience, this
prayer
was his
expression of what he could then see,
feel, and
wish to
become:
6.
... painful experiences, we think we have arrived ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Through many
painful experiences, we
think we
have
arrived at what that
policy ought to be.
7.
... painful past may be of infinite value ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
This
painful past may be of
infinite value to other
families still
struggling with their
problem.
8.
... painful pleasure out of it.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
We
wallow in this
messy bog, often
getting a
misshapen and
painful pleasure out of it.
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