Staying Sober Without God
Review by Heather C. Staying Sober Without God is an exciting addition to the growing body of literature which approaches sobriety from a non-religious point of view. Author, therapist and former addict Jeffrey Munn...
Review by Heather C. Staying Sober Without God is an exciting addition to the growing body of literature which approaches sobriety from a non-religious point of view. Author, therapist and former addict Jeffrey Munn...
By Bethany Lindsay Originally posted on CBC News on June 12, 2019 A B.C. nurse who lost his job when he refused to attend a 12-step program for addiction will get a chance to...
By Steve K. In the field of addiction studies there is an ongoing debate in relation to how much voluntary choice is involved in addiction to alcohol and other drugs. During an AA discussion...
By Zarina Macha Alcoholics Anonymous is one of the most incredible things I’ve done. It has given me much joy, love, peace, clarity and goodness and I am in great awe to the original...
By Joe C. Originally posted on the FaceBook Page, The Secular AA Coffeeshop Secular AA seems to follow the same growth rate as AA as a whole. We are growing as AA did in...
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley By Paul W. Introduction As an organization, Alcoholics Anonymous has long claimed to be, “spiritual, not religious.” Admittedly, this is the intent...
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...
SOAAR 2019 WIDENING THE GATEWAY By Murray J. What is SOAAR 2019 you might ask? And what is “Widening The Gateway?” They are the Secular Ontario AA Roundup and the theme for the event....
Rigorous commonsense is by no means obvious to much of the world. Indeed, commonsense sometimes requires ceaseless vigilance in its defense. Richard Dawkins By Paul W. The prior critiques by Clara M., life-j, and...
One Buddhist’s take on the precepts and recovery By Arthur S I’d like to first clarify that I’m no authority on Buddhism, Recovery or AA. I’m going to try my best not to preach...
By bob k Earlier this month, AA Agnostica published its 500th article, and one HELL of a lot of people read it. The content of the essays posted here, over the years, has been...
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...
Being a part of the LGBTQ+ family, we face many unique and distinct challenges. Our rates of drug addiction are estimated to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20-30%, versus 5-10% for the general...
By Steve K. I’ve often heard it said in AA meetings that “the opposite of addiction is connection.” Thinking about my own experience of addiction I wholeheartedly agree. I felt very disconnected and unloved...