Web Exclusive: Young and Free
March 2011
By:
Jenn
After two years in hell, a 15-year-old wants to help others.
Committed
July 2004
By:
Wallace B.
| Sanford, North Carolina
The word took on a whole new meaning in AA
What Have You Got to Lose?
April 2023
| AA & Families
By:
C.Y.
| Athens, Ga.
Utterly beaten, he reluctantly prayed and fell asleep. In the morning something incredible happened
Sealed & Delivered
March 2021
| Making Amends
By:
K.W.
| Tucson, Ariz.
Write a letter to everyone she owed? How would she ever pay them back? Time for a little faith
New Man Out
December 2019
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Charles D.
| Pacheco, Calif.
Three days sober and he didn’t know a soul. Until he raised his hand
And Eventually, We Found Beauty In It All
September 2019
| Young & Sober
By:
Emma W.
| London, United Kingdom
A beautiful and loving ode to healing after the trauma of alcoholism
An 8hr 12th Step Call
January 1983
By:
J. C.
| Inglewood, California
Helping a suffering alcoholic for the first time was rewarding--and hectic!
I Don't Want Any of That AA Stuff
February 1979
By:
S. A.
| Rockford, Illinois
Strictly for skid row, he thought--until he found what AAs are really like
You’re Already Doing It
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Jennifer G.
| Cedar Park, Texas
Spirituality has to come naturally
An Expert Gets Sober
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
J.P.
| Aurora, Colo.
While helping others, the Steps helped him help himself.
Kindness and a Smile
July 2024
| Annual Prison Issue
By:
Michael G.
| Winnipeg, Manitoba
A member challenges himself to show the same love and compassion we get in meetings with those he meets on the outside
My First Foreign Trip Sober
February 2019
| Stories by Our Longtime Members
By:
John K.
| Sanford, N.C.
It wasn’t quite 90 meetings in 90 days around the world, but wherever this AA went, the warm embrace of Alcoholics Anonymous welcomed him
A Better Chance At A Better Choice
January 2019
| Stories for Day Counters!
By:
Joan M.
| Davis, Calif.
Looking into mirror of her past life helped her find the start of sobriety—and sufferings’ end
Breakdown, 3 A.M.
September 2015
A newcomer gets busy making sober friends online, until one night in D.C. it really pays off
Summer of Love
October 2013
By:
Karen W.
| Anderson, Indiana
At a wild and colorful meeting in San Francisco, a chairperson gets a perfect chance to practice Step Ten
Web Exclusive: Senior Trip
March 2011
By:
Brittany S.
| Calvert County, Maryland
A near-fatal fall brought this teen into AA. Now the program is part of her family.
A few 24s
October 2009
By:
MORIA B.
| Pomona, N.Y.
When the voice says she no longer needs meetings, a long-timer holds onto her seat
It Was Only a Four-day Slip
July 1976
By:
G. W.
| Bridgewater, Massachusetts
But it ended in tragedy and a return to prison
Bumper to Bumper
December 1974
By:
S. C.
| Manhattan, New York
There are no strangers in AA--only friends we are going to meet