Party Guy
January 2024
| Emotional Sobriety
Many nights after the bar had closed, he’d still be downing whiskey shots. Oh yeah...the wife and kids
It was Grace
September 2023
| Young & Sober
She came to realize that a Higher Power was looking over her all the time
Knock Knock Who’s There?
July 2023
| Annual Prison Issue
He had nurtured this resentment about Jack for years. Now it was time to make face-to- face amends. He was ready
The minute I walked in
March 2023
| Get Into Service
She lovingly looked at me and said, “Sweetie, none of that is a requirement to be here.” I now have more than 11,000 days of sobriety.
Safe to belong
March 2023
| Get Into Service
He expresses his gratitude for Tradition Three and how it helped hin claim his chair
Not by accident
February 2023
| Making Amends
How do you clear up the past when you’ve blamed yourself for years for someone’s death?
Sometimes Quickly Sometimes Slowly
September 2022
| Young & Sober
With surrender and action, the Ninth Step Promises came true. But it’s a process, she says. You can’t just flip a switch
Outed at work
December 2021
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
The last thing she expected was an AA member to reveal her alcoholism at the office. Oh boy, was she rattled!
A tough amend
September 2021
| Young & Sober!
How would he ever make amends to the man he had knifed in the back? In AA, we find a way
A Mom’s Return
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
Through living amends, a grateful sober mother comes full circle with the children she once abandoned for booze
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