Margery K Thank you for asking me to share my story. My sobriety date is June 21, 2004. I see my journey as unremarkable without many of the hardships and trauma so many of us have endured. I grew up in northern BC as the middle child of a loving and dysfunctional family. I …
Being Convinced I come from a really long line of moonshine makers, bootleggers, dope-selling, gun running country boys. That didn’t however make me an alcoholic. I grew up in a home where the disease manifested in me from an incredibly early age by obsessive worry, fret, a false sense of being in control, and low …
I was 5 years old when our phone rang, the primary school principal told my mom “if your son Keith, doesn’t stop playing on the girls side of the schoolground, you will have to send him to school in a dress”. She said your son Keith because there were two of us, myself, and my …
My name is Bev and I’m an alcoholic. I have not had to take a drink since November 9, 2000. My story is not that unusual. I grew up in a dysfunctional family where my dad drank but was not an alcoholic and my mother didn’t drink. As a child I always …
My name is Bobbie and I AM an alcoholic. I grew up in a small northern Minnesota town. Iron ore mining was the bread winner for many in this community. I love to say, we were Irish Catholic, I never stood a chance with this disease. I was the oldest of 5 children. My dad …
Hi friends I’m Nadine. I’m alcoholic. That word and that truth no longer hold the power they once did. The word was used by myself and others for years before I ever knew what it really meant. Initially it held shame and brought a sense of pity to those it was directed to, indicating a …
It will Always Materialize if we work for it… Hi, my name is Marc and I am a grateful member of the 12-step programs based on AA’s 12X12. My story begins when I was very young and wanted to fill up on food (I weighed 35lbs at one year old). Then at 10 I started …
April 2020 M.K. – My Story During my drinking days, I would have described myself as a “functioning alcoholic”. I questioned whether I was a “real” alcoholic when I entered the rooms of AA in April 2018. After all, most of my life I really wasn’t much of a drinker. I was successful professionally and …
I Know a New Freedom My name is Gustavo and I was born in 1953 in Managua, Nicaragua. My memories of the country of my birth are few, more like glimpses of the past, some clear and others murky. Our home was not a happy home as my father was an alcoholic. He was an …
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ABC-123 I Can’t! He Can! I think I’ll let him! My name is Lucky and I am a recovered Alcoholic. I got Sober in Phoenix, AZ. The Phoenix from the Ashes… And have since made my Home in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco Mexico. Alcohol is my drug of choice and that would be …