The following discussion is drawn from my article on shame, restorative justice and Alcoholics Anonymous.
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The unfaddish Weight Watchers preaches portion control and reinforces the sermon with Alcoholics Anonymous-style group sessions.
Alcoholics Anonymous, which otherwise insists on brutal honesty, allows an exception for not telling your spouse about affairs.
He had been allowed out of Castle Huntly open prison, near Dundee, to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Gascoigne told the Sun that the way forward for him now was to start attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings again.
The SEC's complaint doesn't name the executive of Philadelphia Consolidated, though he is said to have met Mr. McGee at Alcoholics Anonymous in 1999.
Indeed, the new film depicts Arthur attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
It was an address for Alcoholics Anonymous, and the meeting times.
He had headed into Manchester to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Activities include the usual get-togethers and seminars, but the secret EO ingredient is off-the-record confessionals modeled along the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step groups.
They got him to return to Alcoholics Anonymous, and, when Brenner found out that he was a devout Christian, he urged him to return to church.
The police had been called to the home on numerous occasions when she was being assaulted and an Alcoholics Anonymous representative saw her violent husband punch her.
Alcoholics Anonymous, on the other hand, is a self organizing, bottom up, all volunteer organization that is almost completely free of the inefficient friction of bosses and bureaucracy.
My recent patient, who had been through most treatments, told me that the only organisation that really helped him as far as he was concerned was Alcoholics Anonymous.
Most rehabs are based on the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program.
The largest was an Alcoholics Anonymous convention attended by about 50, 000 people in 2000, said Laura McCarthy, a spokeswoman for Meet Minneapolis, one of the Twin Cites region's convention-and-visitor's organizations.
This is par for the course in the creative industries: the two best places for young people on the make in Hollywood to meet the players are bars and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
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The ex-footballer said he followed that by staying off alcohol for the following six months, but his own despair at his lapse meant that he failed to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and isolated himself, barely eating.
According to A.A. oral tradition and literature, if you go to enough meetings, you will eventually hear your own story told, enabling the addict or alcoholic in need of recovery to identify and seek assistance within the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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The good news is that we actually have organizational models like the Marine Corps, Alcoholics Anonymous, the IBM Executive School, Teach for America and monasteries the world over where companies like Google can learn the incredible motivational power of transcendent purpose.
Although about seven out of 10 alcoholics who are encouraged to go to Alcoholics Anonymous during treatment drop out in less than a year, the 12 steps of AA are included in some form in the great majority of addiction programs.
Citing the example of someone visiting the Alcoholics Anonymous website, he said sensitive information was at risk of being compromised if details of online behaviour were stored on a database and then a laptop containing information was left in the back of a cab.
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That article, Shame by Any Other Name, Lessons for Restorative Justice from the Traditions, Principles and Practices of Alcoholics Anonymous, explores the folk healing practices of A.A. Though recovery stories told to me by friends certainly informed that paper, I did an enormous amount of research about the reasons why A.A. is efficacious and the reasons it fails.
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