Reading Room

The AA and NA books are under copyright, so their text isn't reproduced here. What you'll find instead: original study guides explaining what's inside each one and how members use it, original daily affirmations written in the same one-day-at-a-time tradition, and direct links to the official sources where the real text can be read free.

Scale ยท day 1

I am not being asked for a lifetime. I am being asked for today.

The promise of never again is too heavy to lift, and lifting it is not the assignment. A day is a size a human being can carry.

Just for today, I will keep my recovery to the length of one day.