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Practical Experience Shows….
03 Oct 2024

Practical Experience Shows….

Recently at my home group in a literature discussion meeting, the chair chose to read from page 95 in the chapter, Working With Others, and started with the first paragraph… “PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as ­intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail.” They …

Fear, the Problem and the Solution
26 Sep 2024

Fear, the Problem and the Solution

I didn’t know when I waked in the doors that you would be teaching me things that would help me deal with the life I had burned to the ground (unbeknownst to me…lol). I thought maybe, just maybe you would help me better understand if I was an alcoholic or not. What I DIDN’T know …

Bait & Switch
19 Aug 2024

Bait & Switch

How many of you reading this post came to A.A. to stop drinking? How many of you thought you had a drinking problem and someone told you A.A. could fix it for you? Tonight at my home group, the chair pulled tonights topic from the Big Book page 62… “This is the how and why …

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“A.A.’s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.”

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“A.A.’s Twelve Traditions apply to the life of the Fellowship itself. They outline the means by which A.A. maintains its unity and relates itself to the world about it, the way it lives and grows.” - from the Foreword of the 12&12

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The Twelve Concepts for World Service were written by A.A.’s co-founder Bill W., and are an interpretation of A.A.’s world service structure as it emerged through A.A.’s early history and experience.

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The primary purpose of this site is to share with those who have a desire to stop drinking, one individual A.A. member’s journey & experience (sober since November 17, 1987) of taking the 12 Steps, studying the 12 Traditions and 12 Concepts for World Service.

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