First Names Only
December 2022
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
What helped was the people I met there: a TV actor, doctors, politicians, even schoolteachers! If they could take a chance, why couldn’t I?
Anonymity Break!
December 2022
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
Revealing our membership is a very personal matter. But one AA recalls an unintentional slip that became a beautiful thing
Planting Seeds in Kenya
December 2022
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
Sobriety reignited his love of farming, but a prayer led him on a journey that enhanced his sense of service forever
No amount of Razor Wire
December 2022
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
Two members shared how their mothers were now asking their sober incarcerated sons for advice. I could not keep my self-constructed dam in place any longer.
Dear Grapevine
December 2022
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
Caution: Busy life
October 2021
| Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
Work, travel, caretaking...how could she ever get to enough meetings? The answer was just a phone call away
Meeting on 4 wheels
October 2021
| Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
On an urgent trip to L.A., a mom on the edge gets some unexpected help from a stranger going 60 mph
Mother’s Little Helper
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
I still have difficult parenting moments and I still want to cry most days about things that happen. But now I don’t immediately turn to alcohol for help. I face my feelings.
Safe landing
October 2020
| Money and Sobriety
If ever there was a time for that pink parachute those AAs kept talking about to open, it was right now
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