The 12-step format intentionally mirrors the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to drive home the point that our future survival requires us to abandon our addiction to greed, envy, and over-ambition.

Grief The Twelve Steps of Grief How the principles behind AA's "Big Book" can guide healing after loss. Posted March 20, 2025 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch ...

To hear AA true believers tell it, once one enters AA, does the steps, gets a sponsor, reads the big book, ... The 12 Steps, by contrast, are not up for scientific review and modification.

Religion writer Karen Armstrong promotes a 21st-century form of the ‘compassionate discourse’ of Socrates.

Seeds of Graceby By Molly MonahanRiverhead Books. 192p. $23.95. This is the story of a free-fall from remorse, shame and self-loathing to peace, gratitude and humility and of the parachute that ...

A selection of books Kristin Snowden read to help her understand the 12 steps, including the book she eventually wrote. Kristin Snowdon. I found their honesty and willingness to call themselves ...

The steps are designed to help people get sober and recover, but the principles behind each, which come straight from the AA “Big Book,” are what really caught my attention.