These 12 celebrities detailed their experiences attending Alcoholics Anonymous and how it's saved their lives during crucial ...

If you fail in AA, it's you that's failed. On why 12-step programs can work. The reason that the 5 to 10 percent do well in AA actually doesn't have to do with the 12 steps themselves; ...

On step one of the 12 steps: LD: "A lot of people who can't make use of AA deeply resent step one, which is, 'We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, or over our addiction.' First of all, it's ...

We're all equals in AA, Al-Anon and other 12-step programs. We do not endorse his comments, nor is he endorsed as a representative of AA. It's one thing for him to discuss his own personal recovery.

Brad Pitt opened up to Dax Shepard about meeting him in 12-step meetings in 2016 on the June 23 episode of Shepard's podcast 'Armchair Expert.' The Oscar winner said he "needed rebooting" when he ...

What if Alcoholics Anonymous doesn’t work for you? You’re not alone. Explore why the 12-step model isn’t for everyone, and ...

He said the longest and strongest recoveries among alcoholics occur because of AA’s 12-step programme. He explained that if an alcoholic simply stops drinking, they find that nothing changes ...

AA uses a 12-step model that begins with a person admitting that they’re powerless over alcohol and that their lives had become unmanageable. Other programs, like Narcotics Anonymous (NA), which ...

Indeed, if we look closely at AA, we see that despite its spiritual underpinnings and focus on working the 12 Steps, it is a very behaviorally oriented process.

Six of AA's 12 steps directly refer to God or a higher power, including one that requires members turn their will and lives "over to the care of God." "The 12 steps are a religious peer support ...

AA and other 12-step programs recommend the use of a higher power to help members recognize something, even if it isn't God or any religious deity, has a power greater than they are. ...

The principles have provided a basis for other 12-steps groups with no affiliation to mainstream AA. THE 12 STEPS We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable ...