The Pursuit of Grace: Interact with Love and Kindness Whether you find grace in Mass, AA meetings, or a conversation with the service station clerk, these channels only work if you follow three non-negotiable rules of engagement. 03 October 2025
Recovery Isn’t a Life Sentence – It’s a Life Reclaimed One of the biggest mistakes I see in recovery—especially among fellow AA travellers—is the quiet sentencing of oneself to a boring, optics-driven life. 28 September 2025
You Can’t Outwrite Sweet Home Alabama Recovery, Rhythm, and the Spiritual Coordinates That Can’t Be Rushed 28 September 2025
Luke 17:5–10. Mustard Seed Faith Luke 17:5–10. Mustard Seed Faith and How Faith Progresses in the AA Rooms 28 September 2025
Horseless Carriages and Craving: Rethinking the “Allergy” in AA’s Big Book Cravings are an “allergic” reaction. OK, maybe not in International Classification of Diseases ICD-11. So what? The label changed. They once called cars “horseless carriages.” That didn’t make them any less real. If your ICD glossary keeps you sober, congrats. For the rest of us, the metaphor still saves lives. 21 September 2025
Don't Confuse Symptoms and Camouflage Symptoms with Root Causes AA doesn’t use the phrase "root cause". AA was born in 1939. That same year, Kaoru Ishikawa was building root cause frameworks for the Japanese Navy. Akron, Ohio and New York weren’t taking advice from Japanese naval engineers then! 18 September 2025
Depressive Realism, AA, and the Quarter-Tank Mindset Depressive Realism—the principle that when your environment is bleak, people stop sugarcoating and start seeing things as they are. 09 September 2025
Label It, Then Let It Go: How Tactical Honesty Turns Frustration Into Fuel There was a time when the kind of workplace fog I’m dealing with now would’ve driven me straight to a drink. Not out of malice. Just out of exhaustion. 07 September 2025
Radiant Grace in a Cold Room Last night’s AA meeting was small—just four men gathered in the bitter cold of southern Australia. We met in the old nuns’ convent, huddled around a radiant heater that looked like it had been faithfully showing up since the late 1980s 31 August 2025
The Voice in Your Head Recovery doesn’t fail because people forget the steps. It fails because the language doesn’t land 31 August 2025
eBook: A Catholic Liturgical Journey Through the Lens of Alcohol Recovery Volume I: July and August 2025 – Sunday Readings for Tactical Reflection Download the PDF 31 August 2025
