Member Stories

Stop Doing What Marge Wants to Do When I finally realized I had no control of people, places and things – my biggest and strongest defect of character,…

Going around in Circles Before I found the rooms I was always impatient, unless I was drinking. It occurs to me that I spent all my energy planning…

asking God to remove those false airs and let people see the real me. As we read How It Works at the beginning of each meeting, I heard…

In spirit of the 6th and 7th month and thinking about which removed character defect had the biggest impact; it is definitely having less fear in my life!…

Since I arrived at the door of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A,) in 1969, I have led a highly active life physically, and mentally. I faced most of the challenges…

I love when I realize I’m handling a situation better than my old self would have. SOBRIETY Making being in the moment a possibility

What does complete defeat look the horror that life had become. It forced me to see that being happy had become almost impossible in any real sense. Here…

Lying sprawled on the living room floor. My wife, her face deep with worry and incomprehension, staring down at me. “You need to get help”. Next morning being…

WHO cares to admit… my code, and out pops a $20 bill. Next door was a liquor store. I buy a 5th of cheap vodka, whose brand name…

After that day 1 of admitting Step 1, powerlessness over alcohol and that my life had become unmanageable, I now feel like I belong. I belong in AA…

Seeing that night, both of my children and my husband were scared of me, and scared for me. I was sick, a very sick person. Finally beaten, after…

defeat look like for me? An amazing question and as I write this, I can’t believe I’m going to say this, I was completely defeated about 6 months…

They say that a frog in a saucepan Does not feel the water get hot I guess that is what I was doing I was drinking and I…

When it did happen it was dramatic. I was seriously ill. But even through my illness, my pride and shame kept me from coming back. I remember lying…

I woke up in Desperation, Half a century ago I had squandered all my options and, I had no place to go. Guilt and Shame and Loathing thoughts…

They say four billion years ago life showed its face on earth. And as it happened, man became, the product of that birth Then grapes appeared upon the…

What More Could A Person Want In my early days of sobriety, I was hearing a lot of words that were unfamiliar to me and I did not…

Where is All This Warmth Coming From? I came to Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) bankrupt in every department. When I started to take the steps, my first big challenge…

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” if there is life, then why has no one ever…

Dear H It was always good to see you on the zoom morning meetings. You’d usually share, even if you didn’t want to. Maybe especially if you didn’t…

poor selves and how mummy and daddy didn’t love them! That was a tough pill to swallow. I was apparently affected by my alcoholic abusive father, sexual abuse…

Could I choose the greatest lesson? Maybe it has to be the lesson of humility. This is necessary for me to let go and to change the way…

Invisible wall Imagined division Standing up tall In smug opposition Glib satisfaction Of knowing I’m right Fades to a fraction From morning to night Leaves behind stains Of…

No Need to Overthink This Issue power greater than myself. I was the one in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12&12) that tried religion and had found…

Here is an example of H.O.P.E. from the brilliant Anthony Hopkins: https://youtu.be/7cKTrH0Utd4 How can one love, help, build relationships, connections with an inner feeling of self-hatred? Not possible.…

My Greatest Lesson in Sobriety “It’s not my fault!”, “Well if you helped me I wouldn’t be in this mess!”, “Of course you are to blame!” “Why else…

My Greatest Lesson in Sobriety My greatest lesson in sobriety… It’s difficult to boil it down to 1 thing. When I came into the rooms nearly 9 months…

The best lesson that AA has taught me My name is Adrian and I am an alcoholic. I had such a distaste for that word because my Dad…

Practical experience shows that nothing will so much ensure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth…

Announcing my 3 months of Sobriety at that Saturday morning meeting was thrilling. I felt so proud and grateful for AA. When the meeting was closed, I asked…