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Down Comes the Wall

May 2024 | How the Steps Changed My Life

Something had changed

May 2022 | 60th Anniversary of the Concepts
I felt amazing. I went for a long walk on the sea wall in Vancouver, skipping over park benches and talking continuously with my Higher Power.

At Peace with the World

August 2021 | Seniors in AA
Just when he needed to dive back in the program and help someone, he met an old boxer named Jake

Sharing Everything

May 2021 | Our Twelve Steps
Who knew he’d have a spiritual experience telling his secrets one morning to
a man he barely knew?

Time to Pray

April 2021 | Fun in Sobriety
How a powerless moment in a forest one day helped define his instinct for prayer

No Longer Alone

May 2020 | Getting Into General Service
With a sponsor’s tough love and unconditional acceptance, he finished his Fifth Step and got back into life

The smell of freedom

May 2019 | Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
When it was time to admit, she spent some quiet time in a very special place under the sky

Just listening

May 2017
Though nervous to sit down with a woman she did not know, she had time, experience and with God’s help, an open ear

One Morning on the Beach

May 2015
After spilling all her fears, she took her sponsor’s suggestion and let a little sunlight in

Another Human Being

May 2012
Metal bars couldn't stop the Fifth Step from freeing this man's new friend

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