Experience, Strength & Hope
October 2003
By:
District 5, Area 52 Literature Work
The Big Book and Beyond
A Psychiatrist's Appreciation of Alcoholics Anonymous
November 1998
By:
Adele E. Streeseman, M.D.
The AA program enables the withdrawn alcoholic to trust the mental therapist, thus hastening a return to sobriety--and sanity.
A Psychiatrist's Appreciation of Alcoholics Anonymous
June 1960
By:
Adele E. Streeseman, M.D.
The AA program enables the withdrawn alcoholic to trust the mental therapist, thus hastening a return to sobriety--and sanity
In The Middle of the Boat
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Valerie E.
| Corpus Christi, Texas
AA works in so many unexpected ways
A Place I Call Home
December 2024
| Remote Communities and Sober Holidays
By:
Sandra H.
| Hooper Bay, Alaska
Staying sober in her tiny Alaska village was tough, until one day the remote community folks’ plane came to town
Rough Days
March 2022
| Emotional Sobriety
By:
Chad P.
| St. Louis, Mo.
When life gets tough in sobriety, he remembers to lean into the Fellowship, speak up and keep his faith
Transferred
March 2019
| What’s On Your Mind?
By:
Thomas D.
| Vista, California
A tragic event sends a Navy man on a journey to AA and faith
The Accident
July 2017
By:
Bill S.
His life began with tragedy and could have ended that way, but then the program intervened
The Perfect Scheme
May 2016
She became a GSR to find romance. She fell in love alright -- with the Fellowship
From Believer to Non-Believer
November 2014
By:
Bob S.
| Louisville, Kentucky
At around 8 years sober, he redefined his Higher Power
Poison Arrow
February 2012
By:
Anonymous
A young woman describes her toxic nine-year love affair with booze
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
September 2011
By:
Rochelle L.
| Portland, Oregon
A quarter of a century sober and they still don't talk about it
Tricked into Service
February 2004
By:
Wanda S.
| Jacksonville, Florida
She hoped she'd be able to help out every once in a while
From Fear to Freedom
October 1996
Jim, an Aborigine, endured extreme privation in his early years. His father, he says, "wielded a mean strap"--Jim was in constant fear of him--and then at school, because of "a rebellious nature," similar punishments occurred. Later, he was apprenticed to
It's a Touchy Subject
December 1968
By:
R. P. N.
| Rochester, New York
Take it easy with the newcomer, people say. And then there are those who doubt or don't believe. . .
Durban Celebrates an AA Birthday
February 1968
By:
Bob Mac.
| Sarasota, Florida
A traveler from America reports on nineteen years of AA in South Africa