Twelve Defining Moments in the History of Alcoholics Anonymous Introduction There is a long history of recovery mutual aid groups that pre-date the founding of Alcoh0lics Anonymous—Native American recovery “circles”; the Washingtonians; Fraternal Temperance Societies; Ribbon Reform Clubs; institutional support groups such as the Ollapod Club, the Godwin Association, and the Keeley Leagues; and…
It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. In another verse in the same poem the creator is called the carpenter. One of the most familiar forms for us, because in our medieval art he is generally represented in this way, is the…
The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother The women I have worked with, and those I have in mind in this book, are conscious enough to make the distinction between appearance and reality. They are grappling with their ambivalent feelings having been in analysis from one to three years.…
It takes great courage to break with one’s past history and stand alone. Food and alcohol hold an overwhelming fascination for a vast majority in our society, and it may well be that the numinosity of food and drink reflects the central crisis in our 20th-century culture: the crisis in faith. We live in a…
If she isn’t projecting them onto her “loved ones,” she is turning them against herself. Living by principles is not living your own life. It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are. If you are trying to live by ideals, you are constantly plagued by a…