Hi, my name is Tina and I am an alcoholic. My sobriety date is September 23, 2019, and I have been sober for 1 year, 3 months and 6 days this equals 463 days of sobriety at the time of writing this post. I have been an alcoholic since I first started to drink at the […]
Category: Personal Stories
The Power of Online Meetings
The first online voice AA meeting in Europe, first164yp, was started in January 2009 as a Monday night meeting on free Skype by Dallas T., an American living in Milan, Italy, who had just served as the Young People’s Contact for the Continental European Region (CER). Hence, the ‘yp’ in the name. At the beginning, […]
Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes
A member’s experience of getting sober in 2020. “Most of our problems are of our own making and change will only rectify them.” My name is Katie and today I am a grateful, sober alcoholic – only due to the fact that I started to make changes in my lonely, destructive life. My sobriety date […]
Staying Sober in Cyprus
This member of AA shares what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now staying sober during a global pandemic. I first started drinking alcohol when I was about 14, although not on a regular basis. At 18 I began working in a large drinking culture where there was duty free alcohol, and off-duty […]
A Sober Pandemic
I wanted to get sober but I didn’t want to stop drinking alcohol. That was pretty much my life for all the 10 years that I drank. Drunken parties where I came home stumbling in the dark fumbling for keys that may or may not have been there. How I lived my life pre-pandemic was […]
