A letter from prison

July 2017

Living Proof

July 2017
How a good kid descended into a life of liquor and jails and found a new way to live in prison

Broader and broader

July 2017
Step Seven is where her sober highway widened to include others

The Walls

June 2017
He built a wall so high others couldn’t get in and he couldn’t get out. Then AA entered his life and he understood he wasn’t alone, after all

The Forever Loop

June 2017
Trapped in an endless nightmare of drinking, blackouts, and hospital stays, he met a nurse who showed him there was only one real way to break the cycle

Finding Sobriety Through Quantum Physics

June 2017
For this young student newly arriving in AA, restoring his life to sanity found a parallel in the dizzying movements of subatomic particles

The Solitary

June 2017
All his drinking buddies had died or drifted away, and he was left sipping pint bottles in secret in his car. But then AA brought him a new and better way of life

Dry Drunk

June 2017
He was told when he came into AA that if he didn’t drink and went to meetings, his life would get better. It didn’t happen that way.

Life Is A Journey

June 2017
His race to the finish line led him deeper into alcoholism. Getting sober taught him to take it one step at a time.

Crossroads

June 2017
She went to an open meeting to check AA out and discovered an elderly lady whose powerful story had a profound impact on her life.

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