Carrying The Message
December 2016
For a man who has done time himself, bringing a meeting to a prison on a regular basis turns out to be the best way possible to carry the message
What’s On Your Mind: It’s All Relative. Or Is It?
December 2016
Putting one dollar in the basket may no longer be enough, suggests an AA who thinks we may need to rethink our attitude when it comes to our tradition of self-support
What’s In A Dream?
December 2016
In dreams begin reality, a poet once said. If so, a new reality for one sober and seeking AA began the day he met a television actor named Bob
Nowhere To Look But Up
December 2016
“A lost, forgotten, drug-addicted, alcohol-reliant, people-pleasing, 27-year-old who was stuck in her life” gets unstuck when she finds her Higher Power
What’s On Your Mind: Anonymity Online
December 2016
With a billion eyes on the Internet, do private corners exist where anonymity can be preserved? One AA weighs in….
Flying High
December 2016
Used to the skies, a pilot finds his particular low in a bottom that brings him into the rooms of AA
Two Years Old
December 2016
On her anniversary, a woman reflects on how she traveled from blackout drinker to someone who sees the light, every day.
Writing The Story Of Her Life
December 2016
She hid her true self behind uplifting poems she literally wrote on walls; it was only after finding sobriety that she also found her essential muse
Sink Or Swim
December 2016
Exercising the spiritual muscles known as “prayer” and “meditation,” this athlete swims daily towards sobriety
Lending An Ear
December 2016
The reason he’s got 30 years of sobriety is became he listens as if his life depends on it. And it does
CARRY THE MESSAGE PROJECT
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