AA Sponsorship, Explained: What a Sponsor Is (and Is Not)

Ask anyone with a few years of sobriety what made the difference and, more often than not, a name comes back. Not a clinic, not a book, not even a particular meeting — a person. Their sponsor. For something so central to how recovery actually works, sponsorship is oddly mysterious to newcomers, so here it […]

Cocaine Addiction: The Signs, and Where Support Starts

Cocaine has a way of persuading people it is not a problem. It fits around jobs and weekends, it comes and goes with paydays, and for a long time it can look, from the outside, like someone simply enjoying themselves. That is exactly why the signs are worth knowing — for yourself, or for someone […]

Is AA Religious? Higher Power, Explained Honestly

It is one of the most common reasons people put off going to a meeting: the idea that Alcoholics Anonymous is a religious organisation, and that recovery there means signing up to somebody else’s God. The short answer is no, AA is not a religious organisation. The longer answer is worth five minutes, because the […]

Joining AA: What Your First Meeting Is Actually Like

Nobody arrives at their first AA meeting feeling ready. Most people arrive having circled the building once, sat in the car for ten minutes, and nearly gone home twice. If that is where you are, you are in good company: almost everyone in the room did some version of the same thing. This is what […]