Sunlight of the Spirit
October 1986
Landon
March 2025
| Sober and Out
By:
Landon C.
| Greensboro, North Carolina
This trans member drank to feel OK. Then one day, with outside help and AA, he discovered a whole new life
The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back
January 2020
| Spiritual Awakenings
By:
Debra B.
| Fontana, Calif.
Having to drink her coffee through a straw didn’t mean she was alcoholic. Did it?
Loose nut
January 2017
By:
Chris K.
| Grain Valley, Missouri
Once a danger at the wheel, she reduced her speed and joined the highway to emotional sobriety
Doing The Next Right Thing
September 2016
As she fights her way through years of incredible adversity, a woman discovers the healing messages to be found in familiar slogans
No House, No Dog
February 2016
The tough choices she made in early sobriety paid off in a most beautiful way
The Gift of Sharing
December 2014
By:
Rick T.
| Falcon Heights, Minnesota
The words he spoke to his AA group that December opened their hearts forever
The Tough Girl
November 2013
By:
Cindy B.
| Harwich, Massachusetts
Part Marilyn Monroe,part Albert Einstein— and part Superwoman
In the Rustle of the Leaves
August 2013
By:
Steve T.
| Burlington, Kansas
His sponsor is gone, but he can still be heard on a crisp fall day
Doctors' Opinions
September 2011
By:
Shauna M.
| London
More can be done to educate the medical community about alcoholism
Getting Past the Denial
July 2011
By:
Donna M.
Seeing her best friend get sober, she could no longer pretend that her drinking wasn't a problem
Dear Grapevine
July 2011
Help
April 2011
By:
Marcia J.
| Phoenix, Arizona
It can feel like the dirtiest four-letter word in the English language
We Could Blow the Whole Thing
January 1979
By:
R. S.
| Queens, New York
What if suddenly there was no AA? If, in some nightmare future, AA groups forgot all about the Twelve Traditions. . .
Look at the record
August 1966
By:
W. B.
| Pennsylvania
An article for newcomers by a newcomer, with insights into the difficulties of ego-deflation
Important New Laboratory Findings on Alcoholism
January 1965
By:
B. L.
| Greenwich Village, New York
Alcoholics and Suicide
October 1964
By:
B. L.
| New York City
The scope of the problem reviewed, with the suggestion that we all can help
Thoughts Are Things
February 1964
By:
M. D. B.
| Westfield, New Jersey
. . .if I wished to change my surroundings, I had to change my thinking first.