Healing Words
April 2024
| Happy Birthday Big Book!
This nurse thought she was too smart for AA, but after reading the book she found her match
God Grabbed My Heart
April 2024
| Happy Birthday Big Book!
Hoping to feel better and get out of the early sobriety woods, a newcomer makes a surprising Twelfth Step call
Turning Point
April 2024
| Happy Birthday Big Book!
At six months sober she left the meeting in a huff. Her plan?
Head straight for the liquor store
Head straight for the liquor store
Watching Them Thaw
March 2024
| Spanish-Speaking AA Members
My First Sober Thanksgiving
November 2023
| Gratitude
How on earth will he celebrate without booze? A newcomer gets a wonderful surprise
Breaking the isolation
September 2023
| Young & Sober
His alcoholism kept him alone in hell. But once he made it to AA, he got the gift of “we”
Next stop: Trouble
June 2023
| Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Full of lust and ignoring his sponsor, he headed out. But this time he couldn’t shake the queasy feeling in his gut
200 days and counting!
June 2023
| Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Drinking was ruining his life. But now he’s hooked into the program—and it all began on his computer
To Love a Dad
June 2023
| Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
A newcomer heads to North Carolina to make amends to his father. Good thing he took his sponsor’s suggestion and prayed
I Only Drank 3 Beers!
December 2022
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
A newcomer finds out the hard way about the power of liquor and the heartbreak of relapse
CARRY THE MESSAGE PROJECT
The Carry the Message Project focuses on getting Grapevine and La Vina subscriptions to alcoholics in need. It's not necessary to know the recipient! Sponsor a subscription for someone behind bars, in a treatment facility, nursing home, or who is homebound.