Sometimes very slowly
May 2019
| Our Big Book–80 Wonderful Years
By:
Nancy H.
| Laguna Woods, California
It took her 30 years, but General Service made her fall in love with AA all over again
Felt like home
June 2018
By:
Janis L.
| Bangor, Maine
How the warm welcome at a shelter meeting helped her take off a “backpack” of fear and shame
Never More Awake
May 2021
| Our Twelve Steps
By:
Lucky M.
| Brooklyn, N.Y.
When I began taking others through the Steps, I noticed a feeling wash over me. I began to understand how my own story could benefit another.
Alcoholism At Large
April 2017
What's It All About?
October 2013
An old timer reflects on his family before and after he came into AA
Exit to utopia
November 2010
By:
KARINA S.
| Tucson, Ariz.
Could a reformed wanderer return to the road as a sober woman?
Game over
September 2009
By:
SARAH B.
| Kingsport, Tenn.
A young woman admits her life is out of control
Saying Goodbye TO A SOBER DAD
September 2008
By:
Debbie C.
| Lerna, Illinois
A father & daughter finally connect
To The Gates Of Insanity
November 2007
By:
David G.
| Brawley, California
A very sick alcoholic finally surrenders
A Place in Our Hearts
January 1997
By:
Tom K.
| Pasadena, California
Making sober friends in Istanbul
Journey to Our Beginnings
April 1983
By:
C. R.
| Plymouth, Minnesota
And to the land of wine and brew--AA style
Belonging
July 1981
By:
W. H.
| Manhattan, New York
Tradition 1 - Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity
A Cheerful Neurasthenic
May 1978
By:
Anonymous
| Lincoln, Nebraska
All the marvels of medical science failed, so he to came to AA and became
When I Was Truly Ready
May 1976
By:
Jeanne R.
| St. Louis, Missouri
With growth comes opportunity, and the impossible becomes possible
The Twelve Steps Revisited/Step 2
May 1961
By:
J. E.
| Guilford, Connecticut
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.