Coming To and Waking Up
June 2011
By:
Danny
| Longview, Washington
Coming to amidst a shattered whiskey bottle on the bathroom floor on his 31st birthday was the beginning of the end
Road to Belief
June 2008
By:
Carl R.
| Elizabeth Township, Pennsylvania
A simple prayer of thanks paves the way to peace
A Curmudgeoness Looks Back
April 2003
By:
June L.
| El Granada, California
There was a time when Steps were suggestions designed to set you free --Step Four - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Let's Talk About Material Things
November 1992
By:
M. D. B.
| Jackson, Michigan
It's that money doesn't buy happiness but we do have responsibilities in this world - From the May 1971 Grapevine
Here I Am
July 2017
By:
Ann W.
| Lusby, Md.
Broken, lost and scared, she found herself in the back of a police car—which, strangely, was the answer to her prayers
“Don’t Change Anything Your First Year In AA”
June 2017
By:
Sheridan K.
| Los Angeles, Calif.
Instead of making the wrong changes, he took the Steps he needed to make the ones that have kept him sober for more than 30 years
Any Lengths in Ghana
July 2015
A member gets a firsthand look at the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous in a city in Africa
School Daze
May 2015
By:
Tom F.
| Reno, Nevada
A surprise visit to his sons' college became the final test of his own drinking
Shangri-La
November 2014
By:
Jim H.
| Zephyrhills, Florida
It was the AA guys in prison who taught him about a new freedom and a new happiness
A Box of Pears
September 2014
By:
—Stephanie R.,
| Long Island, New York
Her relationship with the mother who gave her up for adoption was chilly and distant until she heard Lisa's story in a meeting
Web Exclusive: The Conscious Contact Group
September 2011
By:
Anonymous
A member's story of starting a new group focused on the Eleventh Step
At Home in the World
July 2011
By:
Sara S.
After hiding out from the world while drinking, she got sober and was finally able to make her dreams come true
Death and Taxes
January 2008
By:
Larry L.
| Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
A spiritual search leading to sobriety
An Hp For The Present
July 2007
By:
Andrea J.
| Ypsilanti, Michigan
A new vision for a childhood God