Bill's Story
This event marked Bill W.’s spiritual awakening at Towns Hospital.
What is the “white light experience”?
This is described as the common solution among alcoholics.
What is a spiritual solution?
These are the first three words of Chapter 5.
What is “Rarely have we…”?
This step involves making a list of all persons we harmed.
What is Step 8?
This term describes the personality change sufficient to bring recovery.
What is a spiritual awakening?
This friend carried the message to Bill and introduced him to AA principles.
Who is Ebby Thacher?
This is what alcoholics must fully concede to their innermost selves.
What is that they are alcoholic?
This step requires a fearless and moral inventory.
What is Step 4?
This is what we do immediately after making our inventory.
What is share it with another person (Step 5)?
These are the two types of spiritual experiences described.
What are sudden and gradual?
This doctor explained the allergy and obsession to Bill.
Who is Dr. Silkworth?
This phrase describes the inability to leave alcohol alone.
What is the obsession of the mind?
This is what self-reliance fails us in.
What is solving the alcohol problem?
This prayer asks God to remove our defects of character.
What is the Step 7 prayer?
This is required to recover, according to the Big Book.
What is a vital spiritual experience?
This is what Bill felt when he realized he was not alone.
What is hope?
This fellowship has but one primary purpose.
What is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
This is what we must be rid of to recover.
What is selfishness/self-centeredness?
This is what we do when we are wrong.
What is promptly admit it?
This is the result of working the 12 steps.
What is a personality change?
This realization came to Bill about helping others.
What is that working with others is essential to recovery?
This describes alcoholics as being beyond human aid.
What is “no human power could relieve our alcoholism”?
These are the three pertinent ideas summarized in Chapter 5.
What are: (1) we were alcoholic, (2) no human power could help, (3) God could and would if sought?
This is what we do after making amends.
What is continue personal inventory (Step 10)?
This is what happens when we align our will with God’s.
What is being in harmony with the universe?