Sentences with phrase «aa works»

Entry - level model comes with the most equipment compared to the cars above: nice 7» HD screen with lots of features (XM data - traffic, weather), high - quality HD backup camera, AA works perfect, seats are comfortable on my long rides, and the price tag is unbelievable if you know how to negotiate - very low 18,000 s.

If AA works for you, then «God» bless you.

The thing is AA works for millions around the world.

Alcoholics support AA because AA works for them.

AA works.

However, as AA's 12 Steps are HOW AA works, the 12 Traditions are WHY it works.

The seventy - seven interviews which I had with AA members gave me convincing proof that there is no such thing as a blanket answer to the question of how and why AA works.

AA works for about 5 % of alcoholics.

AA works for those it works for (which is not many) because it is a cult.

I know that AA worked for me.

I'm proud to say this because I'm active in AA working a program and I know it's by the Grace of God or a Higher Power that this program exists and that even these athiests can stay sober (thanks to AA and the 12 steps).

Cooperate actively with the alcoholic in his or her AA work.

Charlotte has also received her Engineer in Training license from the state of Washington, where she currently works as an intern for Northwest Green Chemistry doing performance research for current AA work.

AAS works around the principles of research, rescue, rehabilitate, rehome, and reform.

Not exact matches

The face of addiction a generation ago was that of the working - class or upper - middle - class man, probably long and intimately known to his neighbors, who stood up at an AA meeting in a church basement and bluntly said, «Hi, I'm X, and I'm an alcoholic.»

... and none of them work as well as AA.

Hmmm... have always tried to apply»... my understanding of the AA Recovery Program...» and regardless of my sided interpretations and / or in spite of my very own self, it continues to work; and to think, MY FIRST TWO STEPS IN BOTH BELIEVING AND RECOVERY WERE»... SKEPTICISM & PESSIMISM...» and now I'm convinced that he, she, they or it knows and obviously, I don't... to each their own!

The other type of club serves both as an «open house» for AA sociability and as a center for Twelfth Step work.

For AA is a permissive organization, and each person who comes to it works out his own program.

AA may work for 5 % of Alcholics but it works for about 75 % of people that honestly seek out AA and want to quit drinking.

The substitute compulsions seen in AA are examples of this — frantic Twelfth Step work and endless oral activity.

He has seen a hundred examples of the fact that the AA program works.

Our book is meant t be suggestive only LOL God luck I have feeling AA will weather the hate as it has the last 75 + years and continue to reach out to those so desperately in need of sobriety for free LOL If you read this and want to get sober please try AA if it doesn't work for you find something that does.

This is done through the Institutional Committees, composed of AA's who commit themselves to regular availability for Twelfth Step work in institutions, including general hospitals, mental hospitals, and correctional facilities.

First, the most important thing in AA is to get active in the work and get to know people in AA.

In this day in which teams of scientists are devoting their skill to the problem of helping alcoholics and AA has achieved such impressive success in leading thousands to sobriety, the pastor examines his own meager success in the field and wonders whether he should leave such work to the scientists and to AA.

This suggests, although the samples are too small to be conclusive, that an increase in the work of AA actually increases pastoral opportunities with alcoholics.

His greatest usefulness will always be in providing new prospects for the first ones to work on, in spreading the word among his colleagues, and even in actually bringing the AA and the new prospect together.

Another factor in the greater success of this approach is the eclectic spirit (as distinguished from the exclusivistic spirit of the mission) in which the resources of social work, psychiatry, medicine, and AA have been integrated with their basic evangelism.

One wrote: «I can see what I believe to be some weak places in AA, but it is marvelous that it works.

The late E. M. Jellinek once said, in effect, that a therapist who had not tried to work with alcoholics usually recommends long and intensive psychotherapy when he encounters such a patient; but the therapist who has had some experiences in attempting to work with alcoholics will be more inclined to phone the nearest AA group.

Obviously, any pastor who gives AA members the feeling that he has ulterior motives has vitiated any effectiveness he might otherwise have had in working with them.

Once a working relationship is established, the pastor will discover that referral to AA is a two - way street.

A practical discussion of how a pastor can work with AA and get help from it is found in an article by Marty Mann, executive director of the National Council on Alcoholism, entitled «The Pastors» Resources in Dealing with Alcoholics.»

Chapter 5, the AA chapter, will have the most direct relevance to the work of the average pastor, since AA is his most valuable and effective referral resource.

Although these are not affiliated with AA (the AA traditions do not permit official affiliation with any institution), their treatment is AA - oriented, and there is a close working relationship.

The pastor who moves to a new community will wish to establish a working relationship with the local AA group at his first opportunity.

I'm glad it worked for you it did for me too, but it can work for a lot more if AA became more willing to drop the second A.

One thinks immediately of the AA system of sponsorship and the principle of Twelfth Step work in this connection.

Bob has been sober now for over two years, is active in an AA group in the plant where he works, and attends a Cleveland church.

Most of the ministers reported working closely with AA, and the majority of them had a positive attitude toward the use of psychiatric referral with alcoholics when needed.

The beauty of AA is that there is no right or wrong way to work the program — whatever works to keep you sober is just fine.

And I was not able to do that until I worked the 12 steps of AA

I don't mean this badly, but I think you and generally, most people in AA, have had their brains degraded so much by alcohol that logic and reasoning don't work.

AA is a tradition that draws on pragmatic ideas of what works.

To work the AA program properly you have to believe in a Higher Power, something greater than yourself.

My own moment of clarity in AA came when, while earnestly trying to «work the program» and embrace its philosophies, it occurred to me that if I could somehow convince myself of something as preposterous as the idea that I needed to change my entire way of thinking and adapt to the 12 - step program in order to stop drinking, I could probably convince myself of something a little better suited to my own needs (and much simpler) that would work just as well.

The strict anonymity interpretation incidentally would prevent the majority of attendees from saying «AA didn't work for me.»

If you are a Christian and in AA, and it's all working for you, then you should be happy.

But working the steps your own special way and claiming that it's still AA can be problematic.