By the end, as we stood in a circle holding hands, I thought: “This is a cult, right? This has to be a cult.” I remember the first meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous that I ever attended, about three years ago. I’ll be honest — I wasn’t the friendliest face at that meeting. I had a… Continue reading 7 Reasons Why I Thought AA Wasn't for "Someone Like Me"
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Is There Life After AA?
I was fed up with the fear-based conditioning of being told that if I left, I wouldn’t stay sober, and I was tired of the constant message that my future was up to some mystic higher power. When I walked into my first AA meeting, I felt like I was broken into a million pieces.… Continue reading Is There Life After AA?
