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A Powerful Lesson for Addiction Recovery

Find perspective, hope, and practical recovery wisdom in this reflection on “this too shall pass” ...
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Holding My Seat in AA: Why Recovery Takes Work

Holding your seat in AA means action, discipline, and service. Explore how recovery work leads to a life beyond imagining ...
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Mastering Your Mind: Meditation in Addiction Recovery

Master your mind in recovery. Learn how meditation helps you choose and focus your thoughts for a better sober life ...
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Why “Live Free or Die” Feels Like an AA Motto

A moving AA reflection on addiction, freedom, fellowship, and hope inspired by a New Hampshire license plate at an Alcoholics ...
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AA Palindrome — 12 Steps Up to Sobriety and Down to Humility (Part 2)

Learn why the 12 Steps move us both down to newcomers and up to humility — plus suggested reading to ...
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AA Palindrome — 12 Steps Up to Sobriety and Down to Humility (Part 1)

Discover how AA’s 12 Steps lift you to sobriety while grounding you in humility. Explore recovery insights — find recommended ...
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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 ...
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More GEMS Revealed, A Dipping Book to Grow Empower Motivate Spirituality in Your Recovery

Discover the power of recovery and spiritual growth through More GEMS Revealed: 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 ...
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