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April 2022 | What's On Your Mind?
Sharon had lost her driver’s license after her most recent arrest. After the meeting I would drive her home. All this time in the car was sponsorship time

A sponsor with less time?

March 2022 | Emotional Sobriety
My choices in a sponsor with longer sobriety than I had were few. Then one day, our youngest child in AA happened to mention something about her sponsee

Ignite the Spirit

August 2021 | Seniors in AA
Through the freedom of the Steps, she’s no longer a prisoner of her mind or the booze that took her away

Keeping It Real

July 2021 | The Annual Prison Issue
After COVID shuts down all meetings, he stays sober in prison, writing his sponsor, praying and helping others as best he can

A majestic night

August 2019 | African-American Alcoholics in AA
What was supposed to be just a ride home from a meeting turned out to be a show of a lifetime

Mom gets busy

May 2018
Thanks to her sponsor, she learned that life gets more full, not less, when you get sober

Starting Over

December 2011
With her life unraveling, a woman joins AA and finds a new way to live

Web Exclusive: Learning to Give it Away

March 2011
After 10 years in and out of Alcoholics Anonymous, it was a sponsor who helped this AA member learn to help others in recovery.

JUST FRIENDS

May 2010
When boy meets girl on AA campus, sometimes it works

Kite trick

March 2010
A dollar store kite carries a valuable Third step lesson

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