By: kieron.c

kieron.c — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:06:15 +0000

its interesting to see the change that came about It started with a ‘reliance on god’ (as each person understands that concept) to ‘reliance on meetings’ NA’s Basic text cleary promotes the social or resocialisation view as descibed on this website an most AA meetings i’ve ever been to here in england, its again a social style of recovery with the 12×12 being the book for guidance. In fact i have been to many meetings where there is no sign of a big book anywhere. In the last year, through living many years of discontent, i encountered some AA groups that i can only describe as old school style. They clearly promote the conversion style and use the big book and are strict in following trad 5. I have never met such a happy bunch. They neither condemn any othergroups are styles. I really enjoy this style of rcovery and a new sponser took me through the book and the steps in 4 months. I have more contentment and peace of mind than ive had in years. Some use the terms ‘recovered’ rather than ‘in recovery’ but i dont really worry about that with my own description. Great articles by the way, Thanks

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