Purpose and Meaning

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After a journey through alcoholism that almost killed her, she recovered with the help of the Steps and the Big Book

Intellect and the Disease of Alcoholism

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Floundering after 15 dry years, he decided to stop thinking and start believing

“Do You Really Have to ‘Wanna’?”

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When “wanting” it is not enough, sobriety can be an undeserved, but treasured, gift

Two Years of Sobriety

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Checking in at two years sober… and counting

Marine, Mom and Alcoholic

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To escape the hell she was living in, she put herself in “the middle of AA.” She’s still there

From the Streets to the Rooms

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Homeless and at her first AA meeting, she was hoping to get kicked out—until she read the Steps on the wall…

At Wit’s End

August 2020 | LGBTQ+

In a Canberra Jail

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
A Toronto fireman discovers the joys of service taking meetings to prisoners Down Under

The Thinker

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
I read all the works of the great philosophers—and I do mean all. I did not have an epiphany.

Sentenced: A Good Life

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
An old-timer remembers the judge in the 1960s who sent him to Ed, who cracked open the gate to freedom

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