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Not a Rose Garden: Sobriety, Serenity, and Real Life

Discover how recovery builds resilience, not guarantees. Read real AA stories and find recovery books to guide your next step ...
Still More GEMS 12-Step Shares, Notes and Thoughts

More GEMS Revealed, A Dipping Book to Grow Empower Motivate Spirituality in Your Recovery

Discover the power of recovery and spiritual growth through Still More GEMS: 12-Step Meeting Shares, Notes and Thoughts. Written by ...
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Restrain the Tongue, Delay the Send: Recovery Tools That Work

Strengthen recovery with micro-habits: pause, ask, reflect. Andy Crooks teaches practical methods—find companion recovery books at Happy Destiny Press ...
Planning for Success: Achieving Your Resolution

Planning for Success: Achieving Your Resolution

Discover the key to achieving your New Year's resolution - pre-meditated choices and strategic planning. Don't just hope for change, ...
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Feeling Better

Discover the raw reality of sobriety – unfiltered emotions, character flaws but ultimately, a path to true freedom ...
The 12 Steps: A Milestone, Not a Finish Line

The 12 Steps: A Milestone, Not a Finish Line

Discover the powerful lesson learned by a recovering alcoholic about the true nature of the 12 steps and why it's ...
Rule of 3 Ups

Rule of 3 Ups

Once you have sobered up, there is another set of "3 ups" Rule of 3 ups ...
Friday night highlight

Friday night highlight

I attended an AA meeting in Thunder Bay, a small mid-western Canadian town.  It was a men's meeting.  The topic ...
Sobriety is a long and short game.

Sobriety is a long and short game.

n AA sister shared, “We must be relieved of the bondage of time … pass.” Her brevity caught everyone by ...
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Long-timers and Old-timers

Some of us have been sober for half our lives. Here are some of my thoughts on the difference between ...
Normal is a setting

Normal is a setting

One of the shares at the Welcome Group meeting was, “Normal is a setting on the dryer, not a way ...
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