From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... yesterday.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
2.
... yesterday.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Possibly today will see a continuation of a serious and as yet unresolved problem left over from yesterday.
3.
... yesterday's and
sometimes today's excesses of negative ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.
4.
... yesterday gets
more urgent than ever.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather
not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of
yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
5.
... yesterday, he
cannot live well today.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
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