Reprint of Edition. Each page acts as a study guide to the Big Book and its teachings. In analyzing the various principles of Alcoholics Anonymous we now come to one which has come up for more discussion, and which is at the bottom of more difficulties than any of all the ones listed.
And then we chose sobriety in A. And this means that, if he permits himself to indulge in resentment or self-pity too frequently or for too prolonged periods of time, he will automatically set off the compulsion to drink. We do not know why this happens, but we do know from long, long experience that it does happen. A Program for You leads each of us--newcomer or old-timer--to a deeper understanding of recovery as a way of life.
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Thoroughly annotated line and page, written with down-to-earth humor and simplicity, and providing a contemporary context for understanding, A Program for You helps us experience the same path of renewal that Bill W.
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