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Craig Beck es un hombre de familia muy respetado, con dos hijos, un hogar encantador y una exitosa carrera en los medios de comunicación. Es director de varias empresas y en algún momento fue fiduciario de una gran organización benéfica infantil. Craig era un hombre profesional exitoso y funcional a pesar de su hábito de beber "dos botellas de vino por noche". Durante 20 años, luchó contra el consumo problemático de alcohol, negándose todo el tiempo a etiquetarse como alcohólico porque no creía que encajara en la imagen estereotipada que la palabra transmitía.

Craig Beck est un homme de famille respecté, père de deux enfants, vivant dans une belle maison et ayant une carrière médiatique réussie. Il est directeur de plusieurs entreprises et a été à un moment donné administrateur d'une grande association caritative pour enfants. Craig était un homme professionnel accompli malgré une habitude de consommer « deux bouteilles de vin par nuit ». Pendant 20 ans, il a lutté contre la consommation excessive d'alcool, refusant à tout moment de se considérer comme un alcoolique parce qu'il ne correspondait pas à l'image stéréotypée que le mot véhiculait.

Un recorrido desde los inicios de nuestra comunidad hasta la creación de la Conferencia de Servicios Generales, contado por sus protagonistas Bill W., Lois, Dr. Bob, Reverendo Shoemaker, y algunos de los primeros delegados, entre otros, en una selección de artículos publicados previamente en la revista Grapevine y ahora narrados en español. Ahora por primera vez disponible como descarga digital.

Jack Maloney was born in Philadelphia, PA, to alcoholic parents. He endured a turbulent childhood, suffering harrowing abuse and one trauma after another. He escaped his dysfunctional family by joining the Marines at age 17. Jack was an active alcoholic and drug addict for many years. He has been in alcohol recovery for the past 37 years. His life is a testament of overcoming life’s most difficult challenges. Jack is a survivor turned thriver! His story, Little by Slowly, takes listeners from real loneliness and fear to an ever-living hope that we all need to thrive!

Musician David Vartabedian's personal journey from criminal and convict, to a mentor and inspiration for thousands, provides the background to this guide written for those suffering from addiction, but who are often reluctant to embark on a recovery couched in terms of religion.

Samantha Harte has had her share of heartbreak. Now fourteen years sober, she has suffered through her mother’s mental illness; betrayal by partners; the loss of her sister, friends, and father; multiple miscarriages; and her addiction to drugs and alcohol. Desperate for a path through the pain, she was forced to confront the hardwiring toward perfectionism that kept her sick and embrace the rewiring required to truly recover and heal. Through her medical practice, Samantha came to realize that, whether we’re addicted or not, we all suffer from some degree of soul sickness.

Introducing a powerful new tool! The Twelve Step Affirmations for Recovery from Money Addiction to support you on your journey to emotional sobriety in your 12-step program for money addiction, including overspending, under-earning, etc. Need uplifting support on your journey to heal from obsessing about money? Feeling hopeless, uncertain, or anxious and need uplifting mental support? Need an easy way to replace disempowering thoughts with empowering ones? Then we have some support tools for you.

Wife of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W., Lois tells many wonderful stories from her and Bill's lives.

This book blends the original Biblical history of the Oxford Group and the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to help the listener gain spiritual discernment to defeat addictive mindsets that fear and anger create, and that turn into addictions. This is all 12 steps of The Age of Miracles Is Back! The author believes that as soon as a thought process has more self-will than God's will, the addictive mindset starts.

From the first sip of vodka I took in my college dorm at age 17, I’ve struggled with alcohol. As I write this, I’m a 35-year-old wife and mother, and I’ve been sober for five months. That’s right. I struggled with alcohol for 17 years. Throughout those years, some times were better than others. I’d go through tough phases where I couldn’t get it right for months at a time. During other extended periods, I’d moderate successfully and think I was “fixed”.

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-step programs across the world have helped millions of people recover from addictions. This study guide focuses on Bill Wilson's story. The guide starts with Bill's story. This book can be used in drug and alcohol treatment centers, institutions, 12-step group meetings, and for those seeking to recover from addiction from home.

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is an incredible book. Since 1939 millions have read it to find a path to sobriety and more. The history of where the 12 steps came from will help give a deeper understanding to all that this book has to offer. After thousands of hours in Big Book studies and walking dozens of others through its pages, I am offering a history reference to where the spiritual steps came from that will hopefully help you see more of what this process involves.

What if your addiction isn’t a punishment or a curse? What if your addiction is a precious opportunity, granted to a select few, to achieve the kind of life that most people only dream of? In The Gift of Addiction, 30-year recovery veteran Steven C. presents a case for this novel perspective.

Profound, helpful, funny, sad, quotes, quips, anecdotes, and suggestions from and for recovering alcoholics and addicts. This book contains quotes that I have heard from recovering addicts and alcoholics. They are profound, funny, cringe-worthy, memorable, and powerful. They will allow you to reflect, remember, and reassess your recovery.

One of the first longtime sober members of AA talks about the people, events, and development of ideas and practices that created AA, including Ebby, Bill Wilson, and the Oxford Group; Hank Parkhurst, Ruth Hock, and the writing of the Big Book; how AA got the name Alcoholics Anonymous; Jack Alexander and the Saturday Evening Post article; The 12 Traditions; and more.

Resentment. Denial. Fear. Self-Pity. Intolerance. Anger. This cast of character defects begins with negative thoughts and can wreck the best-laid plans for recovery from addiction. This book explores 10 Negative Mindsets that can cause relapse, or unhappy recovery. It dives into the battlefield of our thought patterns to change these mindsets into more positive ways to view things. Through journaling exercises combined with the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, you can help retrain your thinking.

 I Love You, More offers insight into the various perspectives and experiences of family members who have dealt with the harrowing disease of addiction. The goal of this quick, accessible book is to be the conduit that allows you to enter the body and mind of a substance abuser and their family, to see the world through their eyes as they navigate their way through one of the most heart-breaking and gut-wrenching hardships they will ever face. 

Some people come to Alcoholics Anonymous feeling terrible about themselves and are told, bewilderingly, that their problem is too much ego and a lack of humility. Bill W., who wrote most of the AA literature, described himself as an egomaniac. He put his own needs and wants ahead of others, was grandiose, felt entitled, and thought he was all-powerful. He called this the alcoholic personality type and designed a program to crush the ego as the foundation of sobriety. It worked for him and millions of other alcoholics like him, and he deserves great credit.

This classic AA Grapevine audiobook contains stories by AA members about how they learn to live with their fellow AAs, their loved ones, and their friends and colleagues through the power of AA's Principles. It includes an article by an atheist about the Third Step, a priest talking about religious zealots and the tales of people of different faiths discussing the AA principle of "God as we understand him." The audiobook focuses on how people in AA seek and find hope, faith, integrity, willingness, compassion and understanding.

In this collection of stories from Grapevine magazine, members share their experiences with the core principles contained in AA’s Twelve Traditions. Born of the trial-and-error nature of the earliest years of the Alcoholics Anonymous Fellowship, the book Our Twelve Traditions provides the spiritual—and practical—underpinning for AA’s ongoing adventure of living and working together. Seen through the eyes of individual members, the stories in this collection offer groups, as well as members, workable solutions to difficult problems.