Speaking for Ourselves
October 2022
| Relapse
It’s OK to share our opinions, as long as it’s understood that they’re not AA’s
Letting go
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
How a longtimer learned to observe her thoughts and identify her defects so they don’t take her freedom away
Letting go
Magazine Issue
March 2022
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Topics
On the Cover
AA Literature
Emotional Sobriety
Family
Homegroup/Meetings
Spirituality
My prayer was answered
February 2022
| Getting Through Tough Times
I would say out loud in meetings that, “God let me down. I went to church and was praying to stop drinking and now I’m stuck here in AA.” Finally a guy cross-talked me.
Liquid gratitude
February 2022
| Getting Through Tough Times
Sometimes we don’t need to understand or explain our belief in a Higher Power—we just feel it
Liquid gratitude
Magazine Issue
February 2022
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Topics
Family
Homegroup/Meetings
Spirituality
Sponsorship
Leave outside issues out here
October 2021
| Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
Talking politics is frowned on in AA meetings. One member makes the case that clothes can talk too
The heart has is reason
July 2021
| The Annual Prison Issue
From a secular childhood in Kansas to a sober life of spiritual awareness was not as far as it seemed
The heart has is reason
Magazine Issue
July 2021
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Topics
Emotional Sobriety
Family
Homegroup/Meetings
Spirituality
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