It really is an excellent book -- but pretty intense. I go to a meeting that reads the book cover-to-cover (except Part III, which is mostly about the logistics of starting and running a group), and it gets pretty heavy-duty, in terms of the emotions that the readings bring up. That's what I like about ACA -- where Al-Anon is more along the lines of "take what you like and leave the rest," this book says, "Sit down and listen -- this is how you got to be where you are today, and if you want to get better, you have to face this stuff and own it." This program doesn't let you go through the motions -- it gets in your face and makes you work hard.....
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