WARNING: This is all opinion! When looking into the AA program I came upon “the 12 step promises”, they seemed too good to be true and indeed extravagant. When I read them for the first time they seemed to piss me off. I didn’t understand the language and it hurt my pride knowing that I lacked what these pages told … Read More
When You Take A Closer Look – Poem_July2018
No matter what happens today today was the worst day ever so don’t try to convince me that there’s something good in A.A. because when you take a closer look this prison is a pretty evil place even if your goodness does shine through once in a while satisfaction and happiness won’t last and it’s not true that it’s all … Read More
AA Behind Bars – Jaime S_July2018
All true stories start at the beginning, and this one is mine. I started my forth step for the first time in my life. It was hard for me to understand how to “make a searching and fearless moral inventory” of myself, and be as honest as possible. I’ll be 60 years old this July and I’ve been in prison … Read More
Adversity Exposes My Character Defects – Marsha_July
My little brother Eddie called me and told me that a couple of days ago. He heard Gods voice, that voice told him to go to church, to stop drinking, to stop smoking, and start serving him, as his time on this earth was short. I was shocked, and amazed. My brother has been drinking alcoholically since the age of … Read More
I Thought I was Hopeless – Aimee M_July2018
I am Aimee, and I am an alcoholic. I wanted to share this with you all, as I am sure there are many people who share in my struggles. My initiation into Alcoholics Anonymous was 10 and a half years ago, when the Navy strongly suggested that I get sober. I was initiated into recovery after a suicide attempt. This … Read More
Drugs Get in Life’s Way – Sam K_June2018
Drugs offer instant thrills to latent desires unfulfilled, Misery created through fantasy incites unbalanced philosophies. More victims infected by social disease is an illness that’s become systemic now, it’s a self gratifying epidemic. Drugs get in life’s way. It’s the course to hopelessness sleeping on floors as a guest, victimizing children and babies abandonment and negligence as parents desert all … Read More
AA Behind Bars – Rocco_June2018
“With a past so dark and dreary, so far away the fellowship is always near me. So cold and hell bent, what is this life for, what am I meant?” So much ambition and drive set aside to feed my addict! Growing up in Utah County with only the thought of drink, smoke, and drug. At an early age I … Read More