From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RESOLUTION occurs
4 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... resolution and
the willingness to get rid ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
How can we
possibly summon the
resolution and the
willingness to get
rid
of such
overwhelming compulsions and
desires?
2.
... resolution not
to drink again.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
After they have
succumbed to the
desire again, as so many do, and the
phenomenon of
craving develops, they
pass through
the well-
known stages of a
spree,
emerging remorseful, with a
firm
resolution not to
drink
again.
3.
... resolution that
all such future gifts would ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
4.
... resolution to
approach him or her.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
Even when you've
found the
person, it
frequently takes great resolution to
approach him or
her.
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