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If you like this book and feel it has been helpful in your life, don’t read the rest of this review. I will always preface everything I have to say about life advice or self-help or spirituality with the caveat that if it works for you, you don’t need me or anyone else to approve it. I don’t know you or your life’s circumstances. I don’t know what works or doesn’t for you. This review is for the…
There’s something about “the secret Hawaiian system” that tickles the same part of my brain that “ancient Toltec wisdom” does.
I can sound very critical about A.A., but it’s only in response to the tone set by the How It Works section that’s read at the beginning of every meeting. If any enthusiastic newcomer is taken aback by the language about people being born too naturally dishonest to work the program, I want them to know there are people promoting other paths to recovery. They don’t have to decide between active…
This book was one of the first to bring the term “codependency” out of academic jargon and into the public vernacular through the self-help format. By explicitly applying the 12 step process to codependency, Melody Beattie directly inspired the formation of Codependents Anonymous (CoDA). However, modern psychologists have been critical of the book’s conceptualization of co-dependency.
https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/literature/assets/p-22_AAfortheOlderAA.pdf
For those who aren’t in the book collectors niche, a “fascimile edition” is an exact reproduction of the first edition a book was printed in. https://www.aa.org/node/9076
https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/b-7livingsober1-17updated10-2024.pdf
Just for Today describes itself as a daily meditation book that’s derived from the literature and practices of Narcotics Anonymous, which is derived from Alcoholics Anonymous, which is derived from the Oxford Group, which is derived from Higher Life Theology in English Protestant tent revivalist movements. I argue AA is religious, not just spiritual, and you can find a discussion about that here.…
Look, if you’re going to call your book “It Works,” you’re going to have to be ready for someone to ask “Does It?”