Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity.
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority – a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
An AA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
AA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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Hi!
Emmie W., BIPOC, Canadian- Caribbean, 44 years old. I've lived and traveled all over the world, now settled in Australia for the last 16 years. I am so grateful to be here, alive, and sober.
I worked in technology most of my life so I'm VERY comfortable with any form of communication. I've found Google Meet to be the best as it's free and without a time limit like zoom. But I'm happy to meet you on any platform you're comfortable with.
It's the joy of my life to sponsor another and give what was so freely given to me. I sponsor the "old way" by the Big book and will give you a solid, bare bones sobriety that will survive as a foundation to build your new life around.
This can only work if you are willing to go to any lengths to be sober. If you're not ready, or not willing, I cannot help you.
I love AA and feel a responsibility to ensure that the hand of AA is always there for the next wonderful human who reaches out to grasp it.
Yours in service,
Emmie
I went to my first AA meeting 6th April 1991 and I've kept coming back since and with the help of AA & my Higher Power I have not had a drink a day at a time. I did not drink every day but I needed to drink at weekends to keep me sane to help release the madness in my head. I drank mainly in pubs but I remember thinking if I keep drinking I ll have to drink at home. I did not like being drunk in public (my pride). I could no longer keep up the pretense of being ok when internally I was cracking up. At the end I was suicidal & afraid to die in case I went somewhere worse. Thanks to prayers & my Higher power I found AA and got a fellowship & a program for living.