To carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
AA Around the Country — Same Program, Different Flavor Travel to different parts of the U.S., and you’ll notice something quickly: AA has regional personality. Some places are structured and tightly timed.Others feel loose and conversational. Some lean heavily on…
Meditation & Quiet Meetings — Learning to Be Still Not every meeting is about talking. Some create space for silence, reflection, or meditation. And for many of us, that’s not easy at first. But the program points us there: “We…
Post 5: Big Book Meetings — Returning to the Source In Big Book meetings, the group reads directly from Alcoholics Anonymous and reflects on it together. Same words. Different meaning, depending on the day. “Rarely have we seen a person fail who…
Post 4: Step Meetings — Where Change Happens Step meetings bring the focus back to the Twelve Steps—not as theory, but as lived experience. You’ll hear honesty here.What worked. What didn’t. What took time. Because the promise isn’t perfection—it’s change. “Here…
Discussion Meetings — Many Voices, One Experience Discussion meetings open the floor to shared experience. A topic is offered, and people speak from where they are—no cross-talk, no fixing, no debate. What emerges isn’t a single answer.It’s something more useful:…
Speaker Meetings — Listening for the Truth Speaker meetings center on one person telling their story:what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now. For many of us, this is where something shifts. We stop comparing.We start identifying.…
Not All Meetings Feel the Same (And That’s the Point) If you’ve been to more than a handful of AA meetings, you’ve probably noticed something:they don’t all feel alike. Some are quiet and reflective.Some are loud and full of laughter.Some…
The AAWS Board recently recommended that monthly communication be sent to all AA members regarding matters related to self-support. This communication is the third in that series.
God in His wisdom selected this group of men and women to be purveyors of His goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this phenomenon He went not to the proud, the mighty, the famous or the brilliant.…
Many of us have felt it this week — that subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) sense that things are shifting under our feet. The news is unsettling. Markets are volatile. Politics feel loud and uncertain. For people in recovery,…