Chapter 5: How It Works, p. 59
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.Read in Books4Free →
Step One
From Alcoholics Anonymous — Original 1939 Edition by Wilson, Bill & Smith, Dr. Bob
Step One is the admission of powerlessness over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable. It is the foundational surrender upon which recovery is built.
Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism
Demonstrates the powerlessness of the alcoholic through stories like Jim and the man of thirty.
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