✦ Member Stories ✦

Experience, strength, and hope.

Reflections from members of Sunrise Semester. One share can change everything — start with one.

Ana R. · 11 years sober

Service on a Tuesday

I signed up to be the Zoom host because nobody else did. That decision turned out to contain most of what I needed to know about staying sober past year five.

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Jesse N. · 7 years sober

What My Sponsor Said

I asked her how I would know when I had done the fourth step well enough. She said 'you won't, and that's the step.' That is basically our whole relationship in one sentence.

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David P. · 4 years sober

Nothing Left to Manage

Every relapse, I told myself I had learned something. On the fourth one, a woman in my meeting asked whether I had considered that I might be out of runway.

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Miriam L. · 18 months sober

The Quiet Part

I thought AA was for people who wanted to talk about themselves. It turns out it's mostly for people who needed to be quiet for a while and couldn't manage it alone.

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Anonymous · 12 years sober

First Light

I used to hate mornings. Now I set the alarm for 7:00 AM because there's somewhere I need to be — and somewhere I want to be.

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