Happy New Year! Since January 2021, this writer has been producing material for your reading pleasure. To kick off 2023 and wrap up 2022,...

WHY IT WORKS The 12 Traditions serve as a guideline to ‘Why It Works’, while the 12 Steps describe “How It Works’. Our manuals to...

SIGNS OF A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING (It’s an Action Program) The following is a take on “12 Symptoms of a Spiritual Awakening”, author...

RARELY HAVE WE SEEN A PERSON FAIL Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Page 58 Big Book The Program,...

SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP? A Few ANTI-SLOGANS, and Beyond FEAR of the Fourth Step A few ANTI-SLOGANS (OTHER Talk & SELF Talk): · Sit down...

Al-Anon Story AA recovery meeting are Stigma Free Zones. Al-Anon recovery meetings are Stigmata Free Zone. SCREW GUILT! My name is...

RBA Man in the Mirror OK, buckle up RBAers, because it’s time to throw ‘The G-Word’ around a bit, and even some ‘Non-Conference Approved’...

Quotes and Lessons Learned In no particular order, let’s reflect on quotes and lessons learned from: 1) People that have read the Big...

The Holiness of the Beginning, Middle, and End Game of Recovery. All can equally practice honesty and listening in recovery, whether we...

LIVE & LET LIVE Sometimes we hear people say things that may make us squirm inside at meetings. Perhaps we've already heard them say it...

Take Your Power Back. Before I sobered up, alcohol was like a rope or noose around my neck. Steeped in Learned Helplessness, I was...

Resentments Are the #1 Offender A scar and a resentment look curiously identical to the untrained eye. The fundamental difference between...

History of the Serenity Prayer Attribution to The Serenity Prayer goes to Protestant theologian Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr, but this...

RBA would like to thank Timothy C. from the Saturday night 6pm group for volunteering to coordinate content for the Dry Sheet going...

Dear Readers, RBA is looking for someone willing to coordinate content for the monthly Dry Sheet publication. The Dry Sheet includes...

Dear Readers, RBA is looking for someone willing to coordinate content for the monthly Dry Sheet publication. The Dry Sheet includes...

Featured Post: The Step of the Month Step 6 “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character” After taking my first...

Featured Post: The Step of the Month Step 5 For May 2021 RBA Dry Sheet Step 5: We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human...

Featured Post: The Step of the Month Step Four - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Although it takes strength...

Featured Post: The Step of the Month Step 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him....