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What is the test to tell if we are following the program correctly? First, the most important part is are we physically sober? If we are continuing to drink we are not even on the first step of [...]

The traditions of the programs of AA/NA are there to make sure that our fellowship stays alive and concentrated on our primary purpose. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and to help others to [...]

Are you ready to get sober?? I think the first question is “do you want to get sober?” The easiest way to answer that question is simple. Have you had enough of the life that using [...]

Sometimes we get caught up in the daily activities of life that we forget to be mindful of who we are and what a walking miracle we are. Yes, we are a miracle. We are sober. We are working the 12 [...]

Being accountable in our lives is a component of sobriety that is sometimes overlooked. When we get better and our lives improve does not mean that we are going to live like saints. We are going [...]

Many of us have a past that we’d rather not remember. We instinctively try to forget the bad things in our past when we were using. When we get sober and look back on how we behaved, we can [...]

Guilt and shame are words synonymous with our addictions. For many of us we drank and used to squash the feelings of guilt and shame. The alcohol and drugs, so we thought, allowed us to not feel [...]

After we know without any doubt in our minds that we cannot drink safely anymore, that no human power can relieve us of the compulsion, and we turn our lives over to the care and direction of [...]

A lot of us felt our insecurities disappear when we were using. They didn’t exist at all. It wasn’t until we were alone or sobered up and had to look at ourselves in the mirror that [...]

What is a spiritual experience when it pertains to sobriety? Is it going to happen for me? The answer to the second question is, YES!! It will happen for you if you want it to and allow it to. [...]