The Motto That We Go By...

Your higher power will grant you the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can, and the wisdom to know the difference...successfully (if you work for it) and you will see clearly!

This blog is a dedication for people of all ages to stay sober and keep clean. Addiction is not an easy concept to grasp or accept, but when you do... your whole world will change.

This website provides many tools you can use on a daily basis:
1.) Pages that grasp concepts of addiction
2.) A newsreel that gives users insight into recent articles confined to addiction
3.) Important sayings and explanation
4.) Daily Posts
5.) Suggested links to other websites that may help greatly
6.) A quote of the day
7.) A book of the week

YOU CAN ALWAYS REACH ME ON EMAIL (I check my e-mail multiple times a day)... I am open to suggestions, questions, feedback, basically anything, but most importantly- I am here to help! Do not be shy. You may remain anonymous. My e-mail is Lgreens102.lg@gmail.com

AA in Literature & Film

Alcoholics Anonymous publishes several books, reports, pamphlets and other media, including a periodical known as the AA Grapevine. Two books are used primarily:Alcoholics Anonymous (the "Big Book") and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, the latter explaining AA's fundamental principles in depth.
  • Alcoholics Anonymous (June 1, 1976). Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. ISBN 0-916856-59-3. OCLC 2353981.
  • Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. February 10, 2002. ISBN 0-916856-01-1. OCLC 13572433.
  • "Index". The AA Grapevine (Alcoholics Anonymous). ISSN 0362-2584. OCLC 50379271.
  • Alcoholics Anonymous (November 2011). Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. ISBN 1-893007-16-2. OCLC 49743393

Films about Alcoholic Anonymous

Films where primary plot line includes AA

  • When a Man Loves a Woman – an airline pilot's wife attends AA meetings in a residential treatment facility
  • Clean and Sober – a cocaine addict visits an AA meeting to get a sponsor
  • Days of Wine and Roses – a 1962 film about a married couple struggling with alcoholism. Jack Lemmon's character attends an AA meeting in the film.
  • Drunks – a 1995 film starring Richard Lewis as an alcoholic who leaves an AA meeting and relapses. The film cuts back and forth between his eventual relapse and the other meeting attendants.
  • Come Back, Little Sheba – A 1952 film based on a play of the same title about a loveless marriage where the husband played by Burt Lancaster is an alcoholic who gets help from 2 members of the local AA chapter. A 1977 TV drama was also based on the play.
  • I'll Cry Tomorrow – A 1955 film about singer Lillian Roth played by Susan Hayward who goes to AA to help her stop drinking. The film was based on Roth's autobiography of the same name detailing her alcoholism and sobriety through AA
  • You Kill Me - a 2007 crime-comedy film starring Ben Kingsley as a mob hit man with a drinking problem who is forced to accept a job at a mortuary and go to AA meetings, where he explains he wants to be free of his drinking problem because it is affecting his ability to kill effectively.
  • Smashed - a 2012 drama film starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. An elementary school teacher's drinking begins to interfere with her job, so she attempts to get sober. Despite stumbling, she manages to use the tools of sponsorship and AA meetings to stay sober one year.
  • Flight - a 2012 film starring Denzel Washington. An alcoholic airplane pilot crash lands a flight and struggles with his addiction in the aftermath

Source Cited: "Alcoholics Anonymous." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous>.

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