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Steps to Freedom

May 2024 | How the Steps Changed My Life
After 35 years of living in the Steps, he gratefully recalls how much better life is

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

It’s What We Do

May 2024 | How the Steps Changed My Life
What all does AA give us? A member in Kentucky attempts to answer

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

12 Reasons to Stay

September 2023 | Young & Sober
Each Tuesday night he joins his Step companions to read and share and watch each other’s lives change

Getting the work done

August 2023 | AA in the Military
Some members get paid to help make Twelfth Step work possible—but not to stay sober themselves

Forgiving Dad

August 2023 | AA in the Military
In her drinking years, she blamed her father for abandoning her. Then she got the chance to make things right

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

Truly belonging

June 2023 | Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
From her earliest days, the“Twelve and Twelve” helped her feel part of. Who knew even more joy would come?

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

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