Is Alcoholism a Mental Disease?
By Andy F “Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering” Carl Gustav Jung What is a mental illness? Before we tackle the question of whether or not alcoholism qualifies as a mental illness,...
Category: History – Modern
The post-millennium history of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The Path That Breathes
A secular reflection on higher power, spirit, and recovery By Bradley A. For most of my life, I believed I could solve any problem. I was a planner, an explainer, a rationalizer. If something...
The Transformation of My Alcoholic Craving
My Sick and Twisted Alcoholic Mind By Josh P. “I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends” The Beatles, With A Little Help From My Friends I entered recovery over two years...
AA, the courts, and religion
By Andy F. An eye-opening encounter Anyone who is familiar with my blogs will know that they are all about my experiences as an agnostic alcoholic in AA. Whenever I publish an article on...
Recovery as Intentional Change
By Darcy B. A practical framework for change Over time, I’ve simplified my understanding of recovery to two essentials: abstinence and change. Abstinence is easy to define. It simply means not using. Change is less...
Crossing the Threshold: Recovery as a Modern Rite of Passage
By Patrick L. Pellett In the language of anthropology, recovery is not an invention. It is a remembering. Long before there were Twelve Steps or meeting halls, human communities practiced a pattern that repeats...
Honesty and Recovery…
By Darcy B. I attended a meeting yesterday and the topic was “honesty”. I was given the opportunity to share, and I thought it would be good to put my thoughts on the topic...
AA’s Tyranny of (Other People’s) Experience
By Kurt R. Suppose someone close to you passes away and you’re sad. A few days later you hear their voice, plain as day. You look around but the room is empty. You henceforth...
Websites and the Growth of Secular AA
This article by Bob K was originally published on June 6, 2021. Sadly Bob died on August 12th of this year. by bob k On May 31, 2011, Alcoholics Anonymous was dramatically altered, both...
Fellowship not Faith
By Mick S. In September of 2024 I had an article printed here entitled AA Then and Now which told the story of my Australian experiences in AA starting with my introduction to AA...
A Woman’s Way Through The Twelve Steps
There is now a new edition of this book published on January 23, 2024. Of course it is available on Amazon. A picture of the new edition is attached. This article was originally published...
How I Earned My Seat
By Eddie Cohen It was the best of times that inevitably would become the worst of times. By now, the Hippie movement of tuning in, turning on and dropping out was pretty much behind...
An Alcohol-free Margarita with 12 Secular Steps
By Alcohol-Free Margarita, The following are my own versions of the 12 Steps. I consciously wrote my Steps in the present tense because my disease is chronic and needs daily treatment and my Steps...
ICAA ‘25: Celebrating Secular Sobriety
By Rady A. I registered in February for the quinquennial International Convention of AA held in Vancouver, British Columbia in July. Three omens bode well for atheists and agnostics in AA: Secular AA was...
