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What The Group Says

February 2024 | Getting Through Tough Times

Outvoted

February 2024 | Getting Through Tough Times
A proposed change at her Step study meeting became a valuable lesson in group conscience

Wacky women

February 2023 | Making Amends
She was outvoted. Everyone liked the new meeting name but her. And it only took 10 years to change her mind!

A Loving Guide

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
A lifelong atheist shares how he participates in his AA group’s decisions

Speaking up

February 2021 | Sponsorship
After much work in sobriety, she now has courage and a voice. Tradition Two helps show her the way

Second Tradition Checklist

November 2020 | Our Twelve Traditions
He was going to save AA. Someone had to do it. A member recalls AA’s early days before the Traditions were written

Time to Redecorate

February 2020 | Tough Times
That picture needed to come down, but what could she do? Why, bring it to the group for a vote, of course!

Having our say

February 2019 | Stories by Our Longtime Members
After their treasury went missing, a group had to hold a vote. Luckily, they’d just had an inventory

A word in edgewise

February 2018 | Title Goes Here
When we’re taking a group conscience, Tradition Two helps us remember to take the time and let God in

It’s Up to the Group

February 2017
Things may get heated and not go our way, but we learn to trust the group conscience

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