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Naked before my creator

May 2024 | How the Steps Changed My Life
One member strips the Fifth Step down to this: If we don’t do this vital Step, we might go back to drinking

Party Guy

January 2024 | Emotional Sobriety
Many nights after the bar had closed, he’d still be downing whiskey shots. Oh yeah...the wife and kids

Knock Knock Who’s There?

July 2023 | Annual Prison Issue
He had nurtured this resentment about Jack for years. Now it was time to make face-to- face amends. He was ready

Set free

May 2023 | Home Group
Something big changed in him sitting in Eric’s car that afternoon. And it’s a gift he gets to pass on to others

Not by accident

February 2023 | Making Amends
How do you clear up the past when you’ve blamed yourself for years for someone’s death?

Sometimes Quickly Sometimes Slowly

September 2022 | Young & Sober
With surrender and action, the Ninth Step Promises came true. But it’s a process, she says. You can’t just flip a switch

A tough amend

September 2021 | Young & Sober!
How would he ever make amends to the man he had knifed in the back? In AA, we find a way

A Mom’s Return

July 2021 | The Annual Prison Issue
Through living amends, a grateful sober mother comes full circle with the children she once abandoned for booze

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?

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.

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