It’s like being hit by a car. We are in shock. We struggle to access our best reasoning skills. We are coming to terms with the problematic substance use (or other addiction) of someone we love. With few exceptions, friends…

Is it the mess or the message that shines a light on recovery? 

This musing is an alternative to reductionist thinking that pervades our recovery community discourse. Who’s heard or said, “Carry the message—not the mess"? There’s some…

When going through a difficult time in your life, going it alone has limits. If you feel alone, chances are you are isolated... and community is a few clicks away. Have you heard, “The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety…

When it comes to figuring out if you or a loved one is suffering from alcohol addiction, it can often be hard to be objective. You have to deal with high-stakes emotions, mood swings and/or cognitive impairment. Denial and…

Living in recovery from addiction is not always easy. COVID-19 has been long and grueling. I’ve had ups and downs; I expect you have, too. A myriad of extreme emotions takes a toll on our mental health. Peer-to-peer meetings…

So we did it: 2020 virtual International Conference of Secular AA. How did we do? There were some tech glitches, and I will get to that. A virtual International gathering for atheists, agnostics and freethinkers on this scale is something…

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New Ideas... Good for the individual, good for our society. Why are ideas hard to adopt and harder to sell? 

October 2020: In this blog, First, a shout-out to the AA silent majority -…

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What was AA really like and what’s AA like today? Dr. Earle, a 1955 Second Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous author reflects back, 40 years later, in the 1995 AA Grapevine. When his story first…

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This just in:

• The latest insights and stats from AA General Service Conference.
• New studies about worldview that explain our recovery culture a little bit better.
• COVID-19 life finds doors…

Many people had a hand in changing the course of Alcoholics Anonymous, and consequently, the entire peer-to-peer, mutual aid world. Some of these stories are lost or buried--not hidden from us, just so deep in archives that no one…

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Once every year or so, we look at the state of atheists/agnostics (and/or other underrepresented populations) in AA and the broader recovery community. I just read something—something I missed in a first go-around…