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Old 09-20-2014, 09:45 AM
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Redmayne
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From personal experience...

From personal experience attending, intermittently, with each new attempt to get into recovery, I gave up on the Fellowship of A A for two reasons,

At some, if they didn't say the AA Preamble at the start of the meeting, you wouldn't have even know you were at an AA meeting.

Secondly when it because apparent that a lot of the people there had problems that were nothing to do with alcohol and even less to do with alcoholism or recovery, of which they knew little or nothing about.

Recovery came for me when I fully understood and put into practise the contents of the book,'Alcoholics Anonymous' with particular reference to,'The Doctors Opinion' and the first 164 pages, especially Chapter 3,'More about alcoholism' and Chapter 5,'How it works' assisted by a set of cd's of 'Charlie and Joe' conducting a Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous Study weekend.

I think these are now commercially available on Amazon, titled 'Charlie and Joe and the 12 Steps'.

You may get more out of this than meetings, I certainly did!
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