It took me some time to make sense of what ‘feeling enough’ actually meant to me. Here’s my experience…
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My experience with Step Five, ‘admitting to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs’…
What it was like for me as a newcomer finding a sponsor in AA…
The big question I find I’m asking myself, now that I’m living a life without alcohol – Who am I?
Serenity, complacency, pain & action. The cycle we go through in recovery when we fail to put our programme first…
During my first few weeks in the rooms I was still isolated, full of fear and questioning whether or not I belonged in twelve step recovery. Six months on things are very different, I very much feel a sense of connection. Here’s my experience…
For such a short reading this manages to contain many messages of hope, acceptance, humility, gratitude, the spirit of love and service. Listen to our audio meditation here.
90 meetings in 90 days. What it was like as a newcomer
What exactly is alcoholism? I came into AA because I had a problem with drinking but the programme itself has been about so much more than that. Here’s my interpretation of the spiritual side of the programme…
Before recovery I’d never heard of a gratitude list or journal, even though it seems to be all the rage in the world of mindfulness and self-help right now. Here’s how the practice has helped shape my thinking and recovery journey.