12 Step Recovery is proud to help spread the word about the 50th ICYPAA in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. July 4-6. 12 Step Recovery will have our first live presence at this event, so keep you’re eyes open for our cards floating around. If you couldn’t make it, just register for you’re free membership here and check the Member Blogs and the 12 Step Recovery Forum to see what people say about the Conference.

ICYPAA – The International Conference of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous

“ICYPAA was founded for the purpose of providing a setting for an annual celebration of sobriety among young people in AA. Since its inception, a growing group of people, who at first would not consider themselves as "young people," has become regular attendees. The number of young people suffering from alcoholism who turn to AA for help is growing, and ICYPAA helps to carry AA's message of recovery to alcoholics of all ages. This meeting provides an opportunity for young AA's from all over the world to come together and share their experience, strength, and hope as members of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA members who attend an ICYPAA return home better prepared to receive young people who come to AA looking for a better way of life.”

-From icypaa.org

To all members and future members - today marks my 30 years clean! I am so blessed to have a site to offer to all fellowships!

We are recovering from a server fiasco so the good news - I am clean. The bad news we are salvageing the site and apologize for being down for a few days. Please test your account and be patient we are reparing the features and adding new features. The forum is active and today requires a seperate login - we hope to fix this in the next week.

We have a new profile section so please upload pictures and feel free to blog away.  

This 12 Step Recovery Online Community

began in August 2007. 

12 Step Recovery is a website to offer an online community for people in 12 step fellowships. My goal is simple - I have been blessed to be clean and in active recovery since 1978 - I want to be of service. There are other websites that are fellowship specific - I want to be inclusive rather than exclusive.

I was lucky to get clean in an age where how you identified in a meeting was welcomed regarless of rather you said clean or sober. Many said clean and sober, many identified as alcoholic addict. There were always the few in AA that hated when an addict shared. Today in NA the literature has been changed and NA asks their members to identify as an addict. Unfortunately if a drug rehab brings their recovering addicts to an NA meeting rarely do they explain how people in NA identify. As a result NA members can throw stink eye at a newcomer - who simply just needs it explained to them why people identify differantly.  I am glad the addicts who stayed sober in AA took to their traditions and although they stayed sober - they truly maintained complete abstinance, it is those AA members that brought me to my home in Narcotics Anonymous.

My home is Narcotics Anonymous, however, I am truly grateful for the AA fellowship and will attend a meeting if there is not an NA meeting available. AA and NA have many more similarities than differances. I call NA home because I believe that addiction is my problem not the specific drug. With this said, NA and AA members from around the globe are my family. I wanted to create an atmoshpere where any one wanting to find individuals, businesses, treatment programs... that are commited to helping someone find a new way of living - a place to come together and share their expierence, strength, and hope.

If you are a newcomer or an oldtimer - Welcome! Please share your success and stories with us. This community is to offer blogs, websites, discussions... for those of us interested in 12 step recovery. To be fair to my friends who stay clean with out the use of the 12 steps - you are welcome also. I am not one to say the 12 steps are the only way, I can just say that they are what has worked for me.

12 Step Recovery Community

Please invite your friends to come and share their music, fun, and fellowship. If you have a business or service you want to market - welcome.   I have put on the site ways to connect with others via a chat room, post on the discussion board your local meetings, let people know if you are selling a car, old literature, or anything you can think of. Of course I added a place for personals - it seems in todays technological world - we should be able to hook up with a new friend if we are traveling their way, or a new love interest if we are seeking - so post away. I have a section where you can submit content. I would love to hear from all fellowships, all the differany ways to work steps...

If you have a recovery topic you would like to write an article about please submit it. If you are a history buff and want to write about the history of and fellowship please submit. This is a site for all. Thank you for visiting!

Ann P. - Administrator

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