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Never More Awake

May 2021 | Our Twelve Steps
When I began taking others through the Steps, I noticed a feeling wash over me. I began to understand how my own story could benefit another.

No Need to Fear

May 2021 | Our Twelve Steps
Alcohol convinced him he was all alone, unable to live life. The Steps brought him back into the light

Estranged

April 2021 | Fun in Sobriety
Drinking buddies for 20 years, she and her sister were best friends. That is, until one of them sobered up

Kind, Benevolent, Caring

March 2021 | Making Amends
My life then could not have been described as safe and secure, caring and kind, or filled with unconditional love and joy. I found all that when I got to AA.

Learning to love

June 2020 | The Annual Prison Issue
After 30 hard years of liquor, violence and incarceration, he found AA, began to make amends and turned his life around

A Meeting to Remember

April 2020 | Home Group
One day at her home group, a surprising thing happened that opened her eyes to Step Three

Close to my heart

June 2017
The necklace she wore told this newcomer that someone very special never gave up

Basic training

April 2017
Five weeks of outpatient were the building blocks to AA and a sober life

Turning point

March 2017
A member recalls the tragic story that helped him make a decision and put him on the road to Step Three

Back From Hell

April 2016
At 20 years, he decided to take a break from AA. What followed was years of detoxes, psych wards and pain

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