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6 giorni fa · Co-founder Bill Wilson spoke at a prison outside New York City about his own near-fatal alcoholism. He recovered through what was becoming the Twelve Step program of A.A. Then as now, prison populations had a high proportion of Blacks.
6 giorni fa · Synopsis. Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
- John Kent Harrison
- 4
- Winona Ryder
- 96 min
6 giorni fa · Despite finding great love with Lois Burnham and marrying her before going into the service, Bill’s drinking got worse. By the age of 30, he was a successful Wall Street stock analyst. And eight years later, at age 38, his drinking took him to the edge of insanity and near death.
5 mag 2024 · I blogged over at my professional page Beacon Confidential about the early adversity Bill Wilson, Alcoholics Anonymous founder, and his wife Lois endured. Read more
6 giorni fa · Lois Wilson lived to age 97, dying in 1988, seventeen years after Bill. Lois worked tirelessly to grow and strengthen both Al-Anon and A.A. as Bill’s proxy until she passed. Their marriage benefitted the Twelve Step movement even after Bill passed.
10 mag 2024 · Furthermore, Bill and his wife, Lois, faced infertility and the heartbreak of failed adoption attempts (their application at the adoption agency was denied) due to Bill’s drinking and the stigma of being an alcoholic.
4 giorni fa · AA dates its founding to 1935 with Bill Wilson’s (Bill W.) and Bob Smith’s (Dr. Bob) first commiseration alcoholic-to-alcoholic. Meeting through AA's immediate precursor the Christian revivalist Oxford Group , they and other alcoholics there helped each other until forming in 1937 what became AA.
