Payback
February 2023
| Making Amends
Her drinking and stealing damaged their friendship. But the healing the Steps gave them was priceless
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?
The Plain Truth
February 2023
| Making Amends
A parent of an autistic son keeps her amends to him simple and honest. Now it’s time to live it
The best son I can be
February 2023
| Making Amends
With his sponsor’s help, a member learns to make living amends for the next 21 years of his mother’s life
Things can change
February 2023
| Making Amends
I couldn’t believe it, but my mouth opened and these words came out: “Dad, I’m sorry I blamed you for everything wrong in my life.” Wow.
All she ever wanted
February 2023
| Making Amends
Thanks to AA and her Higher Power, a daughter finds another way to honor her mother’s wish
This beautiful truth
January 2023
| Spiritual Awakenings
A member raised in the Muslim faith shares her eye-opening journey with the Second and Third Steps
Trust
December 2022
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
As an active alcoholic, I had been unable to quit drinking for years and years. I tried over and over, but could not find a way to free myself. I was like the frenzied wren.
Unacceptable
October 2022
| Relapse
I stood there in line growing more and more impatient. After all, I had important things to do. I didn’t have the time to stand in line waiting for their social hour to end.
Lie of Omission
October 2022
| Relapse
The girl he kissed was not his girlfriend. Oh boy, what to do now?
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