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Life Moves Along

January 2024 | Emotional Sobriety
We can never step in the same stream twice, she says after 53 years of sobriety. It’s amazing how each day unfolds

My side of the street

October 2023 | Mid-Sobriety Challenges
With spiritual and fellowship help, he’s learned to step up and clean up when the time comes

It was Grace

September 2023 | Young & Sober
She came to realize that a Higher Power was looking over her all the time

The minute I walked in

March 2023 | Get Into Service
She lovingly looked at me and said, “Sweetie, none of that is a requirement to be here.” I now have more than 11,000 days of sobriety.

Safe to belong

March 2023 | Get Into Service
He expresses his gratitude for Tradition Three and how it helped hin claim his chair

Unacceptable

October 2022 | Relapse
I stood there in line growing more and more impatient. After all, I had important things to do. I didn’t have the time to stand in line waiting for their social hour to end.

No One Will Know

October 2022 | Relapse
While working on a construction site with some AA buddies, he had a close call he won’t soon forget

Another opportunity for growth

March 2022 | Emotional Sobriety
How did this mom’s day get so bad so fast? Luckily, she’d been sober a while and knew just what to do

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

Outed at work

December 2021 | Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
The last thing she expected was an AA member to reveal her alcoholism at the office. Oh boy, was she rattled!

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