If there were badges handed out in Alcoholics Anonymous (which there aren’t), some of the most powerful people in the rooms would be wearing one that reads: PRD — Pattern Recognition Detective Not because they’re perfect. Not because they’ve “arrived.” But because they’ve learned to see something most of us couldn’t see when we first …
There is something in us that knows we were made for more. Not more excitement. Not more drama. Not more chaos. More peace. More alignment. More wholeness. In A.A., we talk about being “restored to sanity.” We talk about living “in the sunlight of the Spirit.” We talk about “conscious contact with God.” If you ...
On this cold and wintery day here in Texas, I wanted to share a new book I just finished titled, “The Prep Steps – Setting Up Action in A.A.” I will be publishing it and making it available here on this site in the LIBRARY section early this week, but I wanted to share a …
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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.
Get StartedThe 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.
(DISCLAIMER: This site is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous, nor does it speak for A.A. as a whole - just one member's experience.)
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I’m blessed by those who have shared how this site has helped them on their journey of recovery.
