by Rich Murphy | Sep 4, 2024 | 12 Step Program, 12 Steps, AA Meetings, Alcoholics Anonymous
“Surrender, Surrender, but don’t give yourself away, hey, hey” When I was introduced to recovery and the 12 steps, I only knew that surrender was the name of my favorite Cheap Trick song. I had been hustling and grinding through life for forty years with no clue how...
by Sherry Gaugler-Stewart | Jun 27, 2019 | 12 Steps of AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Family Sober Support, Recovery
“Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” – Step 6 from the Al-Anon Family Groups I recently caught someone, who I love, in a lie. It hurt. Hurt wasn’t the first emotion to appear: anger was. Of course, anger does a really...
by Maj Donovan | May 15, 2019 | 12 Steps of AA, 12 Traditions of AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, Sober Housing, Treatment Program
There are struggles we will face in sobriety. Getting sober is not a guarantee that life will be void of trouble. On the contrary, life will be life. Life will have its ups and downs, its triumphs and tribulations, its ebb and flow. What we are guaranteed with...
by John Curtiss | Jun 3, 2015 | 12 Steps of AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Drugs Addiction, Recovery Program, Uncategorized
One of the great challenges for those still struggling with alcohol and drug dependency – and even for those in long-term recovery – is surrendering to a power greater than ourselves. Giving up the internal battle to control our own lives and letting...
