Member Stories

I wrote this one year ago, the day after I gave up alcohol. Hey, old pal, you will be happy to know I’m writing this from a bar…

Had you asked me a week earlier what I planned to do on my 47th birthday it’s fair to say the answer wouldn’t have included – sit upstairs…

6 Things To Do After A Sober Night Out: Some things I used to do when I came home drunk, and actually I think I might enjoy them…

What if it’s all working out ok? What if I just can’t see the beauty What if It’s all going to be brilliant? What if I’m in the…

His Holiness The Dalai Lama says: There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self. There is no satisfaction that can compare with…

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excited from this experience and felt motivated to get back into life again the next day. God truly works in mysterious ways and I’m still trying to process…

I believe that I have had further spiritual experiences, more of the educational variety in working the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, attending meetings, doing service and working…

felt. They knew all about alcoholism and the solution for it. I started to go to the meetings but I was not interested to work the steps or…

What is it about change that throws me for such a loop? We in AA joke with each other about how much we do not like to change,…

My sensitivity chip tells me that it is unhealthy to fawn over famous people. My rational chip tells me that famous people are just people doing something well…

I had a lot of friends, a great job, a wonderful family, a beautiful home and no problem whatsoever: I was unhappy at times and I did not…

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered, Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives, Do good anyway. If you are successful,…

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I  have  this  dream,  a  vision  so  to  speak  of  being  an  AA  pioneer  and  spreading  the  message,  AA  has turned  my  life  around  and  all  I  want…

A  newcomer  asked  his  sponsor  about  the  difference  between  a  non-­‐alcoholic,  a  potential-­‐alcoholic and  the  hopeless-­‐alcoholic,  explaining  that  he  was  confused  by  this  terminology  in  the  Big  Book.…

If  I  had  to  explain  to  somewhat  what  alcoholism  means  to  me  today,  I’d  use  the  statement  in  the book,  ‘a  disease  of  the  body,  a  problem  of…

Here  are  some  thoughts  on  my  experience  in  taking  other  men  through  the  12  steps  of  Alcoholics Anonymous  using  the  “Back  to  Basics”  workshops  structure.  First  of  all,…

It  occurred  to  me  as  I  was  writing  this  on  the  computer  that  I  never  run  out  of  pages  to  write  on. Whenever  I  get  to  the  end…

A  couple  of  months  ago,  a  fellow  sent  me  this  list  of  50  Life  Lessons.  The  author,  Regina  Brett,  has kindly  given  her  permission  to  reprint  in  our…

8,758  hours  and  counting  ……. 365  days,  I  cannot  quite  believe  it.  It’s  early  but  I  can’t  sleep,  and  I  don’t  want  to  waste  a  minute  of this…

Journal  Entry,  October  xx,  20xx “Sharing  at  a  meeting  is  a  service  to  others  but  also  an  important  part  of  my  own  recovery.    I  was grateful  …

I  have  been  plagued  with  horrible  feelings  of  shame,  condemnation  and  guilt  when  I  think  about  the wreckage  behind  me.  I  have  been  hiding  by  trying  not  to…

Hello  my  name  is  Phil  and  I’m  an  alcoholic  from  Newcastle  in  England.  I  have  recently  been  on holiday  in  Singapore  with  my  family  visiting  my  wife’s  sister.…

It’s  still  early  days  for  me  and  I  still  don’t  have  a  name  for  you  or  quite  understand  who  you  are or  why  you  have  been  there  all…

While  it  sleeps  I’m  up  all  night Can’t  seem  to  find  a  way  to  make  it  right… The  sun,    I  know,    will  rise  again To  start…

And  It’s  just  me.  Me  you  don’t  want  to  see  Just  me. No  friends  no  peace  no  way  out  Absent  from  life. My  job  my  life  my  joy…

Thanks  to  Fellow  Sita  S.  who  has  shared  some  A.A.  and  related  sayings  which  have  helped  her during  recovery.  Please  forward  any  sayings,  phrases  or  slogans  that  you…

Wally  P.  is  an  archivist,  historian  and  author  who,  for  more  than  twenty-­‐three  years,  has been  studying  the  origins  and  growth  of  the  Twelve-­‐step  movement.  He  is  the…

A   water   bearer   in   India   had   two   large   pots,   each   hung   on   each   end  …