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AA Secret Sauce — What Is AA’s Secret Sauce?

As a former venture capitalist and now an active business and management consultant, I often find myself applying this lens to organisations and movements outside the commercial world. Recently, I asked myself: What is AA’s secret sauce?

03 June 2025

Step Two Came to Believe — Step Two – A Summary of the Key Principles to be Practiced

“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”

03 June 2025

Sensitive — Navigating Sensitivity to Criticism: Insights from AA, Psychology, and Neuroscience

Why many recovering alcoholics need to add managing sensitivity tools to their sobriety toolbox

02 June 2025

Breathing Underwater — Mapping the Trinity Lens Alcohol Recovery to Fr Rohr's Breathing Underwater

Richard Rohr’s Breathing Under Water, which explores the deep spiritual parallels between the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and the teachings of the Gospel

01 June 2025

Footholds — Mapping the 12 AA Footholds to the Trinity Lens of Alcohol Recovery

Mapping the 12 AA Steps into three foundational principles of Trinity Lens of Alcohol Recovery

01 June 2025

Biblical Picking grain by hand — The Grainfield Gospel and the Hand That Heals

Gospel: Mark 2:23–3:6. This Gospel unfolds in two scenes—one in a grainfield, the other in a synagogue. Both are confrontations. Both are clarifications. And both speak directly to the recovering alcoholic who’s learning to live by grace, not by grind.

01 June 2025

Flower rising from rock — Treasure in the Clay

2nd Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:6–11 - Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 4:6–11 are a paradox of power and fragility. He speaks of light shining in darkness, of treasure held in jars of clay, of death at work—and life rising in its place

01 June 2025

Kidness at church — Rest That Rewires

Deuteronomy 5:12–15 commands the observance of the Sabbath—a day of rest, remembrance, and reverence. For the alcoholic in recovery, this isn’t just a religious ritual. It’s a spiritual necessity. Rest is not laziness. It’s recalibration.

01 June 2025

Bird in hand — No Regrets, Just Lessons: What AA Taught Me About Moving Forward

Regret is a heavy burden. It anchors us to the past, often when we most need to move forward

31 May 2025

Lonliness — Loneliness, Disconnection, and the Unexpected Grace of Companionship

Today’s AA meeting centered on a powerful and universal theme: loneliness. The topic emerged from a reading in As Bill Sees It, and what followed was a series of deeply moving shares.

31 May 2025

The Acsension of Christ 1513 Hans Suss von Kulmbach — Lessons in Alcohol Recovery from Acts of the Apostles

The passage from Acts of the Apostles 1:1–11 offers several key moral and spiritual lessons for Christians—and for those walking the path of recovery from alcoholism.

29 May 2025

Humble The Poet — Anxiety, Alcohol, and the Gap We Try to Close

In Unlearn: Unanxious, author and artist Humble the Poet shares a series of reflections on how to live with more calm and less stress. Among them, three ideas about anxiety stood out to me—especially as someone in recovery from alcoholism.

29 May 2025

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