Nothing In Moderation
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By:
Charles M.
| Freehold, N.J.
In everything—including sobriety, thankfully—he knows no moderation
My Step Three Experience
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By:
Mari Beth L.
| Jacksonville,, N.C.
Finding her true Higher Power in a church was like coming home again
A Love Affair with Alcohol
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
Deanna S.
| Roswell, Georgia
Her marriage or Long Island iced teas? She had to make a decision. Luckily, she chose AA
The Power of the Ocean
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By:
Alessandra H.
| Oceanside, Calif.
Getting sober wasn’t easy, but the profound peace she now feels was worth every struggle
She Believed She Could.
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By:
Tammy N
| Rome, Ga.
She found AA—and AA found her
Sober Sisters
February 2024
| Getting Through Tough Times
By:
Susan and Lynda C.
| New York, New York
Daughters of an AA mom share their long, wonderful stories
Party Guy
January 2024
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Ed L.
| Wrightwood, California
Many nights after the bar had closed, he’d still be downing whiskey shots. Oh yeah...the wife and kids
Just in Time
October 2023
| Mid-Sobriety Challenges
By:
C.R.
| Columbus, Georgia
Full of rage at 20 years sober, a mail carrier gets a special delivery from her Higher Power
Tough Crowd
May 2023
| Home Group
By:
Robert P.
| Amity, Ore.
A member in Oregon fondly remembers the old geezers at his home group who liked to bark orders. Luckily, he grabbed onto Darrell
No defense
October 2022
| Relapse
By:
Dolly A.
| Old Orchard Beach, Maine
As her meetings slipped away, the wine started looking good. Then one day she reached for the glass
Forgive Quickly Laugh Easily
April 2022
| What's On Your Mind?
By:
Caroline M.
| Novato, Calif.
A mom shares how she found purpose in a place where her heart feels at home
A Disease That Settles
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By:
Tina C.
| Athens, Ala.
How does General Service keep us sober? She counts the ways
Guilding light
October 2021
| Cooperation With Professionals (CPC)
By:
Ron B.
| Costa Mesa, Calif.
A member shares some powerful thoughts about AA’s patience, resilience and creativity during COVID-19
Everything Is Possible
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By:
Brittany G.
| King of Prussia, Pa.
Alcoholics Anonymous, she realizes, is a program of ‘we’
Sobriety and My Spiritual Journey
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By:
Mike H.
| El Cajon, Calif.
If he stays connected, his Higher Power always provides “a door to a new and better place”
Traditions Stressed By Bill in Memphis Talk
October 1947
My First AA Experience
January 2017
She attended her first meeting drunk and the hand of AA did not reach out to her. Sober ten years later, she remembers with resentment—and forgivness.
Anything Wrong With AA?
November 1997
By:
Anonymous
| Manhattan, New York
(From the March 1964 Grapevine)
Leadership in AA: Ever a Vital Need
December 1976
By:
Bill W.
True as it was in the beginning, it is even more so today with AA membership tripled to over a million - From the April 1959 Grapevine
Depression
April 1976
By:
L. H.
| Denver, Colorado
All right, we're sober! But what do we do about. . . - Four articles by AAs who have been there
I Won the Boxing Gloves (And the Big Book)
May 1967
By:
C. D.
| El Monte, California
An ex-delegate's story of 20 years' AA service
Out of the Desert
June 1965
By:
M. P.
| Binghamton, New York
... I cried: .. . let me get back home.
The "Magic Island
October 1961
By:
M. C.
| Port-au-Prince
Where "voodon" fires dot the mountains every night, a lady loner-keeps her serenity by practicing the principles
Through the Looking Glass
August 1957
By:
J. P. L.
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Portions of a talk made last April at the Chicago Annual Meeting of the National Council on Alcoholism. The author, John P. L., recently joined the General Service Board of AA as an alcoholic Trustee.
The Twelve Steps and the Older Member
August 1954
By:
J. E.
| Bronxville, New York
Step One<lbFirst in a series of articles to be published from time to time on the meaning of the Twelve Steps to one member after several years' sobriety.