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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• 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 who's…

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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…

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Do you suffer from something called, eco-anxiety? 

Senior Editor at The Atlantic, James Hamblin defines this Century-21 contagion as the dread and helplessness that come with…

Rebellion Dogs Blog  - May 2019 

Have your say at the 69th 

General Service Conference of AA   

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Are you an AA member; a member of a group that…

The Program of Alcoholics Anonymous: Interpretive by Design 

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Just try to refute that membership in AA is based on individual interpretation of Tradition Three, “The only requirement for membership is a…

“Suit up and show up!” Who’s heard this Circa 1958 AAism? The picture above is from the first International Conference of Young People in AA, Niagara Falls New York, 1958. Is business-wear the best way to represent AA from…

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 Our Summer Box 4-5-9: News and Notes from the General Service Office of A.A.[i] reports about 15,000 less AAs, year-over-year. Also, of us two million +/- members, we are spread between…