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Life Moves Along

January 2024 | Emotional Sobriety
We can never step in the same stream twice, she says after 53 years of sobriety. It’s amazing how each day unfolds

My side of the street

October 2023 | Mid-Sobriety Challenges
With spiritual and fellowship help, he’s learned to step up and clean up when the time comes

Unacceptable

October 2022 | Relapse
I stood there in line growing more and more impatient. After all, I had important things to do. I didn’t have the time to stand in line waiting for their social hour to end.

Letting go

March 2022 | Emotional Sobriety
How a longtimer learned to observe her thoughts and identify her defects so they don’t take her freedom away

Writing through the fear

October 2021 | Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
After a panicked exit from a Grapevine workshop, she pulled out some paper and went to work. Spot-check inventory to the rescue!

Time to check out

October 2020 | Money and Sobriety
“It’s progress, not perfection.” If you see me “in action” at a grocery store, please, I beg you, don’t tell my sponsor how I acted.

Even if the truth hurts

October 2019 | Is AA Accessible to all who need it?
At his daughter’s school one day, a sober dad learns a valuable lesson about telling lies

Turbulence

June 2019 | Letting Go of Resentments
A prayer at 10,000 feet helps her get back on the right footing

Nothing held back

May 2018
An old-timer shares about the freedom the Steps have given him and how he gets to pass them on.

A Good Look

October 2014
A newcomer discovers that it's never too early to start looking at Step 10

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