The Big Book
This co-founder of AA is the primary author of the Big Book.
👉 Who is Bill Wilson?
This person guides you through the 12 Steps and offers accountability.
👉 What is a sponsor?
This Step involves admitting powerlessness over alcohol.
👉 What is Step One?
This is the first stage of relapse, often before any substance use occurs.
👉 What is emotional relapse?
This decade saw the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin, and Morrison.
👉 What is the 1970s?
Bill W. had his spiritual awakening at this hospital in New York.
👉 What is Towns Hospital?
These gatherings provide shared experience and peer support.
👉 What are meetings?
This Step involves making a searching and fearless moral inventory.
👉 What is Step Four?
This stage involves thinking about using again.
👉 What is mental relapse?
This was the official cause of death for Jimi Hendrix.
👉 What is asphyxia related to barbiturate intoxication?
This doctor treated Bill W. and encouraged a spiritual solution.
👉 Who is William Silkworth?
This action helps prevent isolation and builds connection in recovery.
👉 What is reaching out?
This Step focuses on making direct amends wherever possible.
👉 What is Step Nine?
This is the final stage where substance use actually occurs.
👉 What is physical relapse?
Kurt Cobain was a central figure in this music movement.
👉 What is grunge?
Bill W. met this future co-founder in Akron, Ohio.
👉 Who is Dr. Bob Smith?
This involves being honest with others about struggles and cravings.
👉 What is accountability?
This Step involves prayer and meditation to improve conscious contact.
👉 What is Step Eleven?
This plan outlines strategies and supports to maintain sobriety.
👉 What is a relapse prevention plan?
Amy Winehouse died from this condition.
👉 What is alcohol poisoning?
Bill W.’s “white light” spiritual experience occurred during this year.
👉 What is 1934?
This is the act of helping others in recovery to strengthen your own sobriety.
👉 What is service?
This Step includes carrying the message to others.
👉 What is Step Twelve?
This key action interrupts isolation and helps stop relapse early.
👉 What is asking for help?
This harmful belief romanticizes suffering as necessary for creativity.
👉 What is “the tortured artist” myth?