A Program For You: A Guide To the Big Book's Design for Living

by Anonymous

A Program for You leads each of us--newcomer or old-timer--to a deeper understanding of recovery as a way of life.

A Program for You clears our way for discovering positive, powerful answers to these questions. In the years since 1939, the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, has guided millions in their search for a design for healthy living free of addictive behaviors. Now, two program old-timers share their years of intensive study of the Big Book, revealing the vitality of its message for those of us reading it today.This celebration of the basic text of Twelve Step recovery breathes new life into the Big Book's timeless wisdom. Thoroughly annotated line and page, written with down-to-earth humor and simplicity, and providing a contemporary context for understanding, A Program for You helps us experience the same path of renewal that Bill W. and the first on hundred AA members did.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 23, 2009

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Reviews

[LEAH R. ROGERS]

Great Cliff Notes to the Big Book

This Joe McQ and Charlie P.'s work. I know because I have listened to their CD's since 2010. Youtube videos since 2018.

This book will help you understand the Big Book better. It really simplified the 12 Steps. The whole purpose of the book.

If you also want more knowledge on the Steps, I have read Practice These Principles by Ray A. and The Steps We Took by Joe McQ.

[Timmy Cham]

Very nice, streamlined overview of the Twelve Steps' guide to life. I'd totally recommend it to a friend who wanted to know more about how, specifically , the 12 Steps are supposed to guide one's life.

[Phil]

Though not presented as such, this book is the print version of a very well-known cassette tape (it can be streamed nowadays) Big Book study given by Joe and Charlie. I’ve listened to the recording numerous times, it’s one of the best and well worth the time to listen (or in this case read the book) though at 167 pages the book leaves out a lot of the detail (and stories) contained in the recordings.

[Chris Davey]

Very practical guide on working the program of AA

[Echo]

Read through this with my sponsor and I really loved it.