In the premiere episode of the new Big Book Comes Alive podcast and videocast. A series dedicated to bringing the legendary `Big Book Seminars` done by Joe & Charlie to modern audiences. Available on most podcast platforms, Big Book Comes Alive offers a fresh and convenient way to explore the timeless wisdom of Joe and Charlie. Where we work to bring the insights of this classic seminar to life with modern audio clarity.

For decades, two popular audio sets featuring Joe and Charlie have been a staple for those seeking guidance in recovery. These recordings have provided comfort, wisdom, and insight to countless listeners on their journey to sobriety. Big Book Comes Alive brings this treasured content to the podcast world, offering a unique way to connect with Joe and Charlie's teachings. The episodes draw from a weekend seminar recorded in Latrobe, PA, in July 1993—a time when Joe and Charlie’s powerful insights captivated an audience eager to explore the Big Book in depth.

The Big Book stands as the approach to understanding the principles of recovery and the core messages of Alcoholics Anonymous. Joe and Charlie's sessions took the complex ideas in the Big Book and made them accessible, relatable, and genuinely inspirational. By revisiting these sessions through a podcast, we can engage with their guidance in a new light, appreciating the timeless relevance of their words.

Join us each week on the Big Book Comes Alive podcast to re-experience the voices of Joe and Charlie with modern audio and fresh perspectives. Whether you’re new to the Big Book or returning to it with new experiences, this podcast promises a journey that’s both familiar and enlightening. Let’s walk through recovery with Joe and Charlie as our guides, discovering how their wisdom resonates just as strongly today.

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It works. But you have to work at it and share it. And, if you practice these steps you should have the spiritual awakening that will bring the relief from alcohol and the addition to it.

Remember that the only way to keep it is to give it away. This is where the spiritual awakening shines. We now know that service and working with others is the best way to keep our center in the program and maintain our Daily Reprieve.

Page 92 - 12 Step call

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Prayer is talking to God and meditation is listening to God.

Pg 87 - Conlude your mediation with a prayer. But this is prayer for help with what we need, not a request or shopping list of what we want. There is no bargain, or fox hole prayers here.

And when we are willing to do his will we will not be caught short on what we can achieve or accomplish.

The 11th Step Prayer is: “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.” -- 11th Step Prayer

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daily maintenance to make sure we don't side back.

We need to continue to make amends when necessary and keep our side of the street clean. And we can do that anytime of the day.

Additional promises on page 84 and 85. We are not fighting ourselves and we can feel the problem has been removed. This is the fit spiritual condition.

10th step prayer:

God, please help me watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear. When these crop up in me, help me to immediately ask you to remove them from me and help me discuss these feelings with someone. Help me to quickly make amends if I harmed anyone and help me to resolutely turn my thoughts to someone I can help. Help me to be loving and tolerant of everyone today. Amen.

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1. If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.

2. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.

3. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

4. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.

5. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.

6. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.

7. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

8. Self-seeking will slip away.

9. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.

10. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.

11. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.

12. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves

You can have the whole world, if you do the action steps to get to that point. As a friend said to me early in my sobriety, `You can have everything in life if you are willing to give up one thing in life`

Achieve the 4th level of existence by completing the amends and restitution process. Finish clearing the decks of debts owed and welcome a new feeling of freedom.

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We heal ourselves by clearing the past the fixing the broken relationships during this process. That will, and can, bring an inner peace that we are now at the design for living stage of our lives and when we move forward, we do it without harming others and making a wreck of everything around us.

Payback, restitution, amends. Not the easy words that get thrown around when we start to truly see our consequences. Once we know that we have harmed others. And there can be

some level of denial when we are in active alcoholism, but there is no veil or curtain once the shakes clear and we start the steps. 

We have to own the fact that some of our damage is emotional and some maybe financial. We have to be willing to fix both. 

There is no shame is repayment of a debt.

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page 77 second paragraph of the Big Book explains to us how to approach someone to make amends

I pray for the right attitude to make my amends, Being ever mindful not to harm others in the process. I ask for Your guidance in making indirect amends. Growing in spiritual progress. - Ninth Step Prayer

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My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen - Step 7 prayer

Just because your higher power can remove our defects of character it doesn't mean that it will do for us what we CAN do for our selves.

We can embrace who we really could be after we understand this change opportunity step. This is the path to living in harmony in all three areas: spiritual / mental / physical dimensions 

And, we cannot blame other for our behavior. this is a design for living. Living and caring and fruitful life with a God of our understanding directing our actions. 

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Remove from us all our shortcomings. We ask our higher power to make us willing to let these things go. This is how we can let our past go. Who are we without our defects. Letting the defects goes allows us to make room for all the better things that will fill us.

'Dear God, I am ready for Your help in removing from me the defects of character which I now realize are obstacles to my recovery. Help me to continue being honest with myself and guide me toward spiritual and mental health.' - 5th step prayer

“My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.' - 6th step prayer

And the episodes ends by taking us right into step 7

Read the first 5 steps

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

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We finish the last part of step 4 and move into step 5. This is where we can let the actor go. The actor that lies and manipulates others. The way we behave when in active addiction.

Finishing step 4 we make another list and this will be the sheet for everything else. 

This makes sure we don't let things slip between the cracks.

We take our 4th step to take certain actions. This is a program of action and requires that we do a number of things;

1 we look at what we have done

2 we write those items down so that we can honestly review them

3 We discuss it with someone. 

We need the final step of this process to complete the process of review and release. This is step 5.

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We close out step for seeing the time we have harmed others with our controlling or demanding in the sex area. And we see why we did that in the past.

And, as we finish this inventory we can see the way we used to be, and we start to see what we can change to relieve us of the past guilt and remorse.

Step 4 columns

col 1 - who did I hurt

col 2 - What did I do?

col 3 - How does this affect Me?

col 4 - What is the wrong or what was done

4th step prayer:

"Dear God, please help me to honestly take stock. Help me to search out the flaws in my make-up which caused my failure. Help me to see where resentment has plagued me and resulted in spiritual malady, but more importantly help me to understand my part in these resentments.

Help me to resolutely look for my own mistakes and to understand where I had been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened. Please help me to be searching and fearless in my endeavor to write my inventory."

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Sometimes the use of sex is not for the actual act, but more about the control of the act. We need to see if we have done this to others or any other reason we maybe using sex as a tool fulfill some other need or want.

Step 4 columns

col 1 - who did I hurt

col 2 - What did I do?

col 3 - How does this affect Me?

col 4 - What is the wrong or what was done

4th step prayer:

"Dear God, please help me to honestly take stock. Help me to search out the flaws in my make-up which caused my failure. Help me to see where resentment has plagued me and resulted in spiritual malady, but more importantly help me to understand my part in these resentments.

Help me to resolutely look for my own mistakes and to understand where I had been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened. Please help me to be searching and fearless in my endeavor to write my inventory."

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How are the early thoughts and impression of our sexuality are formed, or corrupted by our drinking.

This week we take a rooftop view of sex and how it can be a source of our resentment. It's cause and affect on us. And when and where and why it is a nature part of our nature but

how do we view it.

Step 4 columns

col 1 - Type of fear

col 2 - Cause of fear

col 3 - What is threatening a basic instinct of life

col 4 - What is the wrong or what was done

4th step prayer:

"Dear God, please help me to honestly take stock. Help me to search out

the flaws in my make-up which caused my failure. Help me to see

where resentment has plagued me and resulted in spiritual malady, but

more importantly help me to understand my part in these resentments.

Help me to resolutely look for my own mistakes and to understand

where I had been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened. Please

help me to be searching and fearless in my endeavor to write my

inventory."

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Step 4 columns

col 1 - Type of fear

col 2 - Cause of fear

col 3 - What is threatening a basic instinct of life

col 4 - What is the wrong or what was done

We are in the world to do as he designs / faith = courage

4th step prayer:

"Dear God, please help me to honestly take stock. Help me to search out

the flaws in my make-up which caused my failure. Help me to see

where resentment has plagued me and resulted in spiritual malady, but

more importantly help me to understand my part in these resentments.

Help me to resolutely look for my own mistakes and to understand

where I had been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened. Please

help me to be searching and fearless in my endeavor to write my

inventory."

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Lets add some order to our 4th step. Everyone seems to know how to do a 4th step on tv, but there is more than just saying I see this problem.

Once you define a resentment you need to tell someone. This is step 5 and you don't do it and step 6 where you reflect and grow on the experience

then you really don't get the benefits of the exercise.

Use your resentments to grow and become better. Then you should find more calm and harmony. It is also one of the best ways to keep in 

the 'middle'. By that we mean spending more time helping others, growing spiritually and being happy then spending time worrying and planning that next drink.

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This is a Big Book centric week. We can have all the benefits of a happy and resentment free life by looking inward. We don't need to buy special potions, or subscripe to monthly scented candle memberships.

I don't down play the imporatnce of professional help. I don't personally discount the value of rehab. But, for the purposes of using the Big Book and following the steps as a road to recovery; it was done previously with just a Big Book.

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Column 4: What is the exact nature of my wrongs, faults, mistakes, defect, shortcomings

What was MY Part: Selfish / Dishonest / Self-seeking & Frightened / Inconsiderate

Are we guilty if we are dishonest about our resentments. If we don't see our part in a resentment then it will continue to fester and keep us from being relieved of that pain and have joy and happiness into our hearts and minds.

ref: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things, R. Fulghum.

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Remove resentments and filling that void with love/patience/tolerance is not easy. Resentments build like a tidal wave and hit unexpectedly, that is why we spend so much time identifying and working thru them.

song ref: Digging up bones -- Randy Travis

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Wheather it's the co-worker, spouse or other we all get out of sorts at times. We all have this when feel threatened to one of our basic instinct. But, if we lean on our higher power we can learn to deal with it.

We learn in step 4 that the basic instinct of our fears and insecuritis are what we find are the reason for our resentments. When we see someone attack our basic instinct, whether real or imaginary slights we then care these around for years living for free in our head.

Break that control of our emotions by others. If we can remove those resentments then we can live a more peaceful live. Breaking the chains of bondage that resentments wrap us in is one of the most important changes that step 4 can give us.

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The 4th step is all about people / places / institutions / principles that we have a resentment with. The things that we get angry and upset with. But, why are we angry?

what is the cause? what was result?

There are form online to assist with the list and causes for working a 4th step. Or, you can just use page 65 in the Big Book. But at a base level

I had to look at 3 things;

a) who am I resentful of

b) what am I resentful of

c) what was threatened

Start seeing that who what where and why did this happen to us. Nw we can start seeing patterns in our resentments. And that will give us 

insight on where our triggers are. Once we realize this then we can choose how to react to these situations in the future and maybe we

can make different choices in the future.

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our higher power in, it is amazing how much freedom one can feel.

Here is the hard part, you have to first write them down. We are programmed to only handle one thing at a time. It doesn't matter if someone can multi-taak. No one

can handle all the past resentment and items we need to review in our 4th step without a reference. That is where the writing comes in.

Many people will use spreadsheets or other forms for this step, but the original matrix for this step is found on page 65. So, no matter what format used to work on this

step, it starts in the Big Book.

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'Free your mind, and the rest will follow' - En Vogue

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who we are, what we have done, and what our responsibilty were. 

Charlie has the best analogy, if you don't inventory a business then the store fills up with old, outdated and un-sellable goods. Sound familiar??

Facing our actions then and who we were; Allows us to change and become the best of what we are.

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 a self centered life. The fourth step give us a chance to see how our selfishness caused us to behave mad, or scared or hurtful towards others.

We work the 4th step becasue we need to make some sort of inventory of what we have done. Then we can review this will help us to 

remove those defects of character. This clearing out the old and makes room for so new, better thoughts and goals.

Oops, the actual quote from the movie is: `Bury the dead, they stink up the place`

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The 12 & 12 talks about the 3 basic instincts of life:

• Social
• Security
• Sex

This week we talk about the first two. 

Social acceptance is a powerful part of our idea of self. We all want to be accepted and popular. 

But, shortcuts and running on self-will puts us in conflict and that is what creates pain and suffering for ourselves

Security is making sure we are living today but also making sure we are secure in the future. ie: live for today, but get life insurance to plan for tommorow.

Because planning for something is a great feeling until we have to start achieving our goals only to keep up with others. 

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Why? Because `you cant heal a sick mind with a sick mind`.

In order to change we must get rid of selfishness. We need to have a way to turn our own self and our problems over to a greater power. 

I cannot stop drinking on my own. I know, I tried many times. It wasn't until I admitted that I was helpless and the I needed the help of something greater that I got relief.

Notice the last paragraph is full if I's. Because you cannot find relief until you make it personal.

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it is a personal decision and without it we are stuck at step 2. The main issues are in our mind and we need to be willing to change our minds. This is a personal journey because we cannot force our will in others.

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Learning to turn over our will, and our mindset, to higher power. This is a process, and it takes takes time and energy to accept. Giving up control is a large ego deflator, and can keep us from building the foundation for success that the first step, steps that are action based, are meant to help us achieve.

Step 1 and step 2 set the ground worked for us to be ready for step 3.

All action is born in thought because you cant self think you're self out of this. We must be willing to come to believe in something bigger than just ourselves.

We need a guide and path and that is where the big book becomes the most valuable resource. It can give the directions needed to move forward and change.

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This program is a guide to change and a roadmap to the restoration to sanity.

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We all need to be a little more like Christopher Columbus who went west to go east and didn't fear falling off the edge of the known world in search of his goals. 

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Many of life's changing event are preceded by a spiritual change. Meditate on these ideas, see if they can bring peace. page 45 - how do you find the power, if we find it then the power solve the problem

because you can't heal a sick mind with a sick mind.

Go from powerless to empowered and find power by admitting that there is something bigger than us. Find your concept of God. Find belief and faith will follow.

Agnostic

NOUN

a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable, one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god

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When we have spent years on self will and self sabatoge, it is like a drowning man who is pull out of the water by a lifeguard. The older membership shows us how their experience, strenght and hopw changed theri life. And if you listen you should hear a call to action as this is not them time to stay in your chair.

The spiritual experience opens the eyes to the idea that change isn't bad and that there is a helping hand. Slapping it away for our own ego is what we need to look at as a starting point to change.

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For many years there have been 2 popular Joe and Charlies audio sets available to listen to online. Many of us have listened to them over and over again during our walk thru recovery. Our new podcast will highlight a weekend seminar from Joe and Charlie known as the ‘Big Book Seminar’, The sessions used were recorded in Latrobe, PA in July of 1993. Join us each week on the Big Book Living Alive podcast, we revisit some old friends and hear them in a fresh and new light.

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The true alcoholic always has the desire to fall back into old habits. In the battle alcohol we must be vigilant. 

The As we said before; We have to be willing to finish what we start. 

It doesn't matter how long or short we are in sobriety - the insanity of our thoughts keeps telling us that it's ok to have that first dring. 

The only way to combat this insanity is by working the steps and having that vital spiritual experience

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Stories of snap decisions and bad choices show us that we must be vigilant. The desire to fall back into old habits is hard to break.

We have to be willing to finish what we start. Stopping at step 3, get stalled before finishing the steps or just think that 'I got this' is a dangerous path.

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Restored to Sanity

Insane: `in a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction`

So insanity is just a state of being "Less Than Whole". This is part of the truth about the disease of alcoholism. 

But, we have to stand in the light of our decisions. We need to concede that we are powerless over alcohol.

We are sober before that first drink and knowing how we will behave after the first drink is the insanity. 

We can make ourselves insane for wanting to, or actually taking, that first drink. That is why we need the vital spiritual experience.

We cannot delude ourselves that this obsession will go away. It will always be there, waiting for us to believe it's lie.

This is not fake news; 'Once an alcoholic, always and alcoholic' - Charlie P.

Stinkin thinkin leads to drinkin !

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It took world famous doctors, and groups practicing modern Christianity that were not generally for alcoholics, and various contributors that were not even alcoholics to share these ideas with Bill W so that he could condense all of this into the program we have today. 

And thanks to that great gift, we can all realize these great benefits when we are willing to change. That is the miracle of the program; you can achieve recovery. 

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'If you are unhappy with the program, or feel you are not able to change to make the program work, then please go find another path 

or go back to the way you were and we will refund all your pain an suffering.' is what a counselor

of mine used to say. If we don't approach the program with the idea that we can change then the battle is lost before it begins.

Keeping an open mind, and be willing to listen to new ideas is a good starting point. From there the only place to go is up.

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Change can be fast, slow or still evolving, but it is how we change our outlook on life that allows us to control the obsession of the mind that quiets the disease of the body. This change will be personal and be different for each person.

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ie: moderate v. hard drinkers

And then you have to look at small list of REAL alcoholics. 

This in not the complete list:

Lack of control

Jeykll & Hyde

Nice until he drinks

Gets drunk at the wrong time

These are types of drinkers that need a program of action to help. They cannot do it alone. We hope they can find the solution.

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It's not just meetings that make the prescription work. The patient must get a Big Book and work the steps. This is the solution, there are no quick cures or miracle reduction pills. It's the work, the hard work of self discovery and letting go to a higher power.

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'Takes the steps to the best of Bills ability', this is important. We MUST give ourselves over totally and completely to the steps for the program to work.

And that makes this the easiest and hardest part of the program. 

If we do this; then we will experience the transformation power of the vital spiritual experience. This is the gift the program can give us to relieve us from the obsession of alcohol and put our lives on the path of our higher power.

And the next time Bill felt like having a drink he found another alcoholic to work with. Not to help the suffering alcoholic as much to keep Bill from taking that next drink. Working with others and doing service to and with others is a simple idea that prevents many of us from that next slip. 

This is the design for living that can keep us sober, happy, peaceful and free.

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As Bill goes thru step 2 he learn that the path to understanding the Spiritual portion of his recovery cannot be used as a hammer with others.

Step 1 is the foundation of the program, but without a Higher Power you cannot secure a cornerstone of growth to continue the building process.

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Bill cannot believe his drinking buddy is clean and sober, the men argue about a higher power as religion v. spirituality and Ebby says to Bill, this just use the Higher Power of your choosing. And THAT was the inspirational ideology that Bill W. could understand

and support.

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and the diseas of the body, and this combined procss makes it very hard to combat with willpower alone.

Where is the line between willpower and desire? Just becasue we know the problem does not mean that we have the cure. We need to create a plan for 

creating a solution once we know the problem. But remember, we may not always have all the answers as we start to create solution. This is 

why Bill W still failed in the early parts of learn about the solution, he didn't have all the answers and for that he needed Ebby and Dr. Bob.

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Not all details are the same for every person or their individual history. But, if we listen to them then we may see something in that story that relates to us and our story. And that is how the process of discovery works. It puts us on the a path that hopefully ends in recovery.

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We don't do that today, but the process of taking the steps and the order of the steps hasn't changed. Just the timing of how fast or slow a person takes the steps.

Also, we discuss the first chapter in the book; Bills Story. While we may not all be exactly like Bill in background or upbringing, and some will say his story is not my own, but if you read/study the story it is more a story

of alcoholic personality type.

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Even though Dr. Silkworth did not want his opinion to list an author in the first edition, after many recoveries and the changing views of the medical community his name has been listed as the author of The Doctors Opinion in all subsequent editions.

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the long histoy of alcoholism. 

And don't forget to take a break when the train whistle blows.

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the Big Book is meant to transfer information or teach new information. Becasue, you cannot understand if you don't have someone to show you

Just like learning algebra, you cannot do it or understand it until you learn the basices like addition and subraction. Or, like baking a cake.

If you have a recipe it will come out warm and delicious. If you just throw ingredients in a bowl and hope for the best you will be dissapointed.

Using the Big Book as a study guide, everyone and anyone have the best chance of reovery.

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The Big Book has 3 goals;

1) Show us the Problem

2) Let us know the Solution

3)Teach us the Program of Action needed to make it work

Understanding the how and why the book is presented is key to making sure the book is used correctly as a program of recovery from Alcoholism.

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reticent to stop drinking and join some non-drinking person on his quest to help others; is an understatement. But, after meeting Bill W. and hearing his story Dr. Bob found a kindred spirit and a path to sobriety.

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