AA

This site covers Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, events, hotline and contacts in Tuolumne County, District 33, of the California North Interior Area. It includes AA in Sonora, Jamestown, Soulsbyville, Groveland, Tuolumne and Twain Harte.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other, that they may solve their common problem.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership. We are fully self-supporting through our own contributions. Alcoholics Anonymous is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution. Does not wish to engage in any controversy. Neither endorses, nor opposes any causes.

Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

"From the October, 2003 Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc."

For a brief history of AA in Tuolumne County, click here.

Step Eight: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

 

"We clung to the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves. Our families didn't suffer, because we always paid the bills and seldom drank at home. Our business associates didn't suffer, because we were usually on the job. Our reputations hadn't suffered, because we were certain few knew of our drinking. Those who did would assure us that, after all, a lively bender was only a good man's fault. What real harm, therefore, had we done? No more, surely, than we could easily mend with a few casual apologies. "This attitude, of course, is the end result of purposeful forgetting. It is an attitude which can only be changed by a deep and honest search of our motives and actions."

 

© 1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005;
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 79

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