Relying On A Higher Power
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Michale K.
| Denver, CO
Her most important sobriety and life lesson? When needed, her Higher Power was always there
70 Wonderful Years!
June 2023
| Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
We celebrate our beloved book "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions"!
Safe to belong
March 2023
| Get Into Service
By:
John C.
| Berlin, Wis.
He expresses his gratitude for Tradition Three and how it helped hin claim his chair
Sobriety Is A Choice
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
M.M.
| Peekskill, N.Y.
Discovering community in AA through the message of “we”
Don’t do this!
January 2022
| Beginners
By:
Jim M.
| Lawrenceville, Ga.
We got out of the car and Kirby stuck a Big Book under his arm and we headed up the walkway, acting like we knew what we were doing. Kirby knocked on the screen door.
Saddest Christmas Ever
December 2020
| Remote Communities + Sober Holidays
By:
Vance O.
| Marion, N.Y.
No job, no wife, no driver’s license or money. Here he was 30 days sober, in the cold, and now the AA meeting door was locked
Remembering to Welcome All
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
By:
Daniel W.
| Breinigsville, Pa.
The Steps help him look at his painful past and amend the way he treats others
Love And Tolerance Is Our Code
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| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Mary N.
| Tacoma, Wash.
Learning to love others by first loving herself brought this alcoholic to six home groups in four countries
Many Ways to Do It
April 2020
| Home Group
By:
Chad P. Mt.
| Vernon, Ind.
A member shares his experience with the concept of autonomy
When no one’s watching
March 2020
| Puzzled
By:
Rick R.
| Poway, Calif.
Little routine things that cost him nothing and clear his conscience begin when he parks the car
Laughter is Recovery
October 2018
By:
Joni V.
| Burlingame, CA
The comforting sound of laughter echoing down a hallway meant that the AA room she was about to enter for the first time was a safe place
Just Maybe
June 2018
By:
Bill B.
| Tahlequah, Okla.
It was the most difficult amends he would ever have to make in his life, but he found that an ounce of willingness carried him a long way
Maybe I Can Help You?
January 2018
| Sponsorship
By:
Annie E.
| Cleveland, Ohio
What to say when a newcomer asks for your advice? One woman discovers that sobriety has given her the ability to find just the right healing words
Pass it On
November 2017
| Issue Title Here
By:
Irving M.
| Washington, D.C.
First his grand-sponsor carried it, then his sponsor, and finally him—the continuity of AA, all in one twenty-five year medallion
To break or not to break
November 2017
| Issue Title Here
By:
Scott D.
| Hope Mills, North Carolina
When it comes to telling others that he’s in AA, whether in person or through his computer, he looks to our Twelve Traditions
Moments
December 1983
By:
R. H.
| Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The sober life has high points of joy, truth, serenity, and love
Give and Take
March 1981
By:
C. P.
| St. John, New Brunswick
He discovered that sponsoring was seeking help as well as giving it
Serenity
December 1973
By:
J. H.
| Fort Wayne
That elusive state of being that comes with total acceptance
Get Involved!
February 1971
By:
J. D.
| Wilmington, Delaware
A three-part section on AA's work in institutions
