AA Big Book
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Twelve Steps
Just as the 12 steps lay the spiritual path of recovery for individual members, provide the principles that keep 12-step support groups, like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and the Al-Anon Family Support Group, healthy and grounded, and focused on their primary purpose of fellowship.
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Principles
The Big Book also outlines the 12 AA principles, which are single words encompassing the virtues needed to pass each step. What are the 12 spiritual principles? The 12 spiritual principles of recovery are as follows: acceptance, hope, faith, courage, honesty, patience, humility, willingness, brotherly-love, integrity, self-discipline, and service.
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Needed for Sobriety
Remember, in order to achieve true happiness and sobriety, you must do more than stop abusing drugs or alcohol. You must work toward achieving happiness and contentment in your life, and these are the types of things that are learned in a 12-Step Program.
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The Promises
Simultaneously, the Big Book promises the departure of these unwelcome byproducts of alcoholism: So the Promises are two-fold: the person who works a good program will gain a spiritual foundation and a whole new outlook on life, and the dread and negativity of alcoholism will be undone.
Alcoholics Anonymous, also known as the Big Book, is a book written by Bill W and others who have found a way to recover from alcoholism. It’s the bible of A.A. The phenomenon of alcoholism plagued individuals all throughout history with no precise answers on how to stop the insanity.