The first eleven steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) approach to recovery focus on the individual answering questions about finding freedom from alcohol and other drugs. Even the eighth and ninth ...

Looking back on my experiences with leukemia and with alcoholism, I realized that the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous can be applied to life with cancer. When I went into treatment for alcoholism ...

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. —Mahatma Gandhi Kintsugi is the Japanese art of recognizing and celebrating beauty in broken things. Broken ceramics (bowls, ...

Many 12-step programs make a rule of preserving participants' anonymity, but now some are challenging that policy. Opponents say 12-step programs have lost enough of their stigma for participants to ...

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