Unity For Recovery | The 1939 Blueprint

Historical Research | The 1939 Standard In the modern world of recovery, you are told that you will be "recovering" for the rest of your life. It is a linguistic prison that suggests you are always one inch away from a drink, forever white-knuckling your way through a "softer way" that never ends. We found a different path. The 1939 Standard: A Result, Not a Process The original 1939 Blueprint did not offer a temporary reprieve; it offered a result . On the very first page of the original text, the pioneers stated: "We... are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body." The Physical Allergy and the Mental Obsession We were once "hopeless"—the type the world had given up on. We were locked in the cycle identified by Dr. Silkworth : a physical allergy that made it impossible to stop once we started, and a mental obsession that made it impossible to stay sobe...