A Fresh Perspective
October 2023
| Mid-Sobriety Challenges
Totally overwhelmed at work at 12 years sober, he found the path to peace just down the road
A Fresh Perspective
Magazine Issue
October 2023
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Topics
Homegroup/Meetings
Service/Into Action
Third Step Surgery
September 2014
Used to self-medicating with alcohol, she found herself looking to the Steps
The Father Who Left
September 2014
It was many years later that he would return to play a part in the son's sobriety
My Wife's Drinking Problem
September 2014
He went along to meetings to offer moral support, but it was he who got sober in the end
A Box of Pears
September 2014
Her relationship with the mother who gave her up for adoption was chilly and distant until she heard Lisa's story in a meeting
My Bulldog Brain
September 2014
When she was able to let go of intellectual pride, she began to identify in the rooms
A Call from the Bus Station
September 2014
A man with 66 years of sobriety finds a letter from a sponsee he had back in the ’60s
Listen Sonny
September 2014
Desperate to not pick up one morning, a 60-year-old newcomer meets his match
Trouble Calling
September 2014
A newcomer learns the hard way that when it comes to romance, keep your sponsor on speed dial
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