It’s not my name that matters here, but instead that I am an alcoholic and you, the one reading this, may likewise also identify as one. It has never been my experience that in AA anyone would ever ask me to do something that I could not first verify for myself through action, as the […]
Category: Personal Stories
Personal Story: “I Just Needed To Master Self-Control, Or So I Thought”
Hello, my name’s Oskar, and I’m an alcoholic. My last drink was on November 7, 2018, one day after my first AA meeting. Since then I have rarely gone a full week without at least one AA meeting. I do service, I work the Steps, and I try to practice AA principles in all my […]
Bill W. of Alcoholics Anonymous Dies – 50th Anniversary of Co-Founder’s Death
Note from the Editor: January 24, 2021 marked fifty years since the passing of one of our beloved co-founders, Bill W. Below is a reprint of his obituary first published in the New York Times on January 26, 1971. In remembrance of him and one of his favorite prayers, may we all be “instruments of peace” […]
Getting Sober in A Bilingual Meeting
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 […]
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, […]
