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June 2021 | Dating & Relationships
After many tries to get sober, would a little tough love help him out?

To Live in Peace

May 2021 | Our Twelve Steps
For years she wanted a God she could trust. With a good sponsor and a little faith, she finally found it through the Steps

Keys, Title & a Hug

May 2021 | Our Twelve Steps
After hitting a sober bottom, a newcomer gets busy doing the Steps with his sponsor and things start looking up

Help Wanted

January 2021 | Oldtimers!
I had been fired again. I was hitting bottom, though I didn’t know that at the time. I picked up the pay phone in the coffee shop. That was my First Step.

Surrender

January 2021 | Oldtimers!
A moment on a winter day reminds him that if we just let go and give up
fighting we can let others help us fly again

Gone Fishing

September 2020 | Living Sober Group
Desperate to drink, she had bottles stashed everywhere. This was the best hiding place ever

Dear Grapevine

February 2020 | Tough Times

A Night of Normal Drinking

January 2020 | Spiritual Awakenings
Just in case he ever forgets, a member recalls what an evening out was actually like

Last call

January 2020 | Spiritual Awakenings
It was 1985. She took out a dime and stared at her shot glass. Then she walked over to the phone and saved her life

The problem and the actress

November 2019 | Grapevine Classics
In 1960, a Hollywood star tells of her fear of being found out and what it took to get help in AA—courage

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