Higher Powers
By life-j Let me start by saying that the only higher powers I believe in are judges and cops. They’re tangible. And further, let me add that anyone who wants to believe in a...
Category: Experience, Strength & Hope
Refuge Recovery – Reflections on Recovery
Refuge Recovery Part Two Reflections on Recovery “The following is a personal recovery story from a member of our Refuge Recovery Community. We have included these stories for those new to recovery to get...
You Will Burn in Hell
by Archer Voxx For the purpose of this article, let’s use a metaphor for our thinking process. The metaphor is that our brain is like a computer’s CPU and that it has an operating...
My Recovery in Traditional AA
By John B In the first week of August, 1984, at the age of forty-eight, I crawled back into AA. My first exposure to twelve step recovery had occurred in a fifteen day treatment program...
Freaken Big Book Fundamentalists Hate Freaken Everything!
By Bobby Freaken Beach Big Book fundamentalists are the elite members of Alcoholics Anonymous. At least, that’s what they tell us. That being the case, it would not be unreasonable to expect that these...
The Evolution of Identity
By David B. Bohl I used to identify in a very specific way. In the beginning of my recovery journey and my adoptee journey I was given two words to describe myself and my...
5 Ways Sobriety Changes Over Time
By Beth Leipholtz Originally published on The Fix I want to be able to use my story to let people know that getting and staying sober at a young age is possible and even...
My AA Story
By Alex M. Growing up as an only child in an alcoholic family was the perfect incubator for an isolated, selfish, self-centered life. My father shared his alcoholism with his mother, and with many...
Moments of Clarity
By life-j I’ve always loved hearing stories where people talk about their moment of clarity. That’s where recovery begins. A friend talked about how he was on a thousand mile drunken trip with a...
In Memory of Denis
By Dan V. Today I write with a heavy heart and with great sadness about a man whose name is Denis Kilborn. On April 1, 2016, he passed away from cancer complications. His sobriety...
A Rose By Any Other Name
By Adam N. Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, in which Ebenezer Scrooge experiences a radical personality transformation, moved me to tears last year. Like most of the men I know, this is not a...
Why It Works
By Thomas B. Before I went to my first AA meetings, I was pretty sure I knew what AA was all about. I had seen a couple of old B&W movies, depicting AA as...
Atlanta 2015 We Agnostics Talk
The 2015 International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous was held in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1 and 5. There were reportedly some 60,000 people in attendance. The theme of the Convention was “80 years – Happy,...
The Importance of Diversity
We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful… The feeling of having shared in a common peril is...
